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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
Carol Burnett
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.
I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order', playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.
I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
I'm not a person who likes to confront.
I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.
I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.
My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.
When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen.
I love audiences.
I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress', that kind of put me on the map.
I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony.
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.
I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.
When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'
But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids.
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.
It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run.
Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.
I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.
I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.
I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique.
I eat very well, and I do Pilates.
I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.
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