"Shelley Lee Long" is an American actress, best known for her role as Diane Chambers in the sitcom Cheers, for which she received five Emmy Award/Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series/Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in four episodes of the spinoff (television)/spinoff Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. From 2009 to 2012, she had a recurring role as DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series Modern Family.

Long has also starred in several films, notably Night Shift (film)/Night Shift (1982), her Golden Globe nominated role in Irreconcilable Differences (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Outrageous Fortune (film)/Outrageous Fortune (1987), Hello Again (film)/Hello Again (1987), Troop Beverly Hills (1989), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), A Very Brady Sequel (1996) and Dr. T & the Women (2000).

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People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.

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I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

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If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

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I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.

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I was a 'kid' kid. Even though I experimented with performing at an early age my parents never thought I'd be an actress.

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I'm a real 'go, go' person. . . I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

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I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

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He [Mr. Wrong] still shows up in my dreams, and I still don't know what to do with him. I was quite enamored with him and unfortunately, or fortunately, he showed up in my adult life too--not exactly by accident.

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I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on-camera because I do them in my life all the time.

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