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Daily Inspiration Quote by Tina Yothers

"I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again"

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There is a quiet kind of defiance in the phrase "start going out on things again" - not triumphant, not self-mythologizing, just the workmanlike language of someone re-entering an industry that loves to treat women, especially former child stars, as expired goods. Tina Yothers frames the decision as logistics: call the agent, take meetings, audition. But that plainness is the point. It strips away the confessional sheen audiences often demand from actors returning to the spotlight, and it repositions her as a professional making a strategic move, not a spectacle staging a comeback.

The subtext is about agency in a business that historically distributes it unevenly. She is not "being discovered" again; she is initiating contact, setting intention, and signaling readiness. "Again" carries the emotional weight: it admits a pause without explaining it, leaving space for everything the culture tends to project onto actresses with early fame - burnout, typecasting, tabloid narratives, motherhood, reinvention. By refusing those details, she resists the packaged redemption arc and keeps the story focused on labor.

Context matters: Yothers is widely remembered for Family Ties, a role that can fossilize a performer in the public imagination. This line reads like an attempt to reopen possibility, to re-negotiate identity beyond the rerun. It's modest, but culturally pointed: returning to acting isn't a metaphysical rebirth. It's a phone call, a choice, and the willingness to be evaluated all over again.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Yothers, Tina. (2026, January 15). I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-got-in-touch-with-my-agent-and-told-him-i-165103/

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Yothers, Tina. "I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-got-in-touch-with-my-agent-and-told-him-i-165103/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-got-in-touch-with-my-agent-and-told-him-i-165103/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Tina Yothers

Tina Yothers (born May 5, 1973) is a Actress from USA.

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