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 Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. I really want to do something for the teenagers. I`d like to be able to reach them sooner and help them in building their confidence.
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In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I`m over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that`s what most every actress would want to go do.
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I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
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I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.
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One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.
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For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
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All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren`t nice, that was just the writing.
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And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that`s just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you`re hot stuff. You`re always working on it.
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I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.
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And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.
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I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.
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Eve wasn`t a size 6 and neither am I.
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If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I`m cheap!"
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Actually, I think it`s interesting that when I put the weight on, I was already with him. I don`t know, maybe I felt safe. And he likes me like this. He likes me whatever size I am.
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At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.
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I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I`ve gone up and down since then.
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During Designing Women I went and did Love Letters a few times, but that was it. Aside from that, I hadn`t done a play since drama school.
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I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.
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I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It`s like something in your blood that you have to do.
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If you`re interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you`re better off and you`ll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.
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Film people are coming into TV, because they can`t get any work.
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Then a year would go by and I`d realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don`t know how to be anything but an actress. It`s who and what I am, so I always come back.
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I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he`s really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He`s just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
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I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.
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I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.
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A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I`m on a roll, I`m hot, I`m really good. I try to tell them, I don`t have a fix.
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I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it`s not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
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And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.
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I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.
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I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn`t good enough.
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I like it when I strut.
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You`re supposed to remember, and still forgive.
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For me, it`s like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I`ll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.
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I`ll do humor about myself, I`ll poke fun and everything, but that`s me and I can do it to me. I think it`s cruel to do it to somebody else.
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It`s tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It`s so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
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But I thought, I`ve just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.
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I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I`ve always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.
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I loved living in London, and I didn`t want to leave.
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And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don`t, it`s just real hard to get through the day, and I`ll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
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Trivia
(March 2005) Starring on Broadway in "Steel Magnolias" (Truvy - the Dolly Parton role in the movie).
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Checked herself into rehab to modify her medications for her depression and diabetes [February 12, 2008].
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April 2003 - While on the set of a new tv pilot, "Sweet Potato Queens", that was not picked up any network for the Fall 2003 season, some of her jewelry including her wedding and engagemant rings were stolen. The stolen jewelry was valued at approximately $74,000. The rings were inscribed with the word "always" and the date of her wedding. No clue to the thief and the LAPD told her that the common thing is to steal the diamonds and throw away the bands, so little hope of recovery was offered.
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Graduate of Colonial High School in Orlando, Florida.
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Following her firing from "Designing Women" (1986), she was parodied in a short-lived Fox comedy show, "The Edge" (1992), in one skit where she was portrayed as a giant who was getting revenge on her former castmates by ripping the roof off the house, pulling them out, and biting their heads off like chickens. Despite the unflattering nature of the skit, Ms. Burke was reportedly very amused by it.
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Is diabetic
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Has suffered from chronic depression since her teens
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Miss Florida 1974
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Born in Orlando, Florida, USA
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Spouse: Gerald McRaney (28 May 1989 - present)
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