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" I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there. "

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" Comedy is tragedy - plus time. "

" My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know? "

" I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts. "

" As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing. "

" I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. "

" Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique. "

" 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 do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. "

" 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.' "

" Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing. "

" We don't stop going to school when we graduate. "

" I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever. "

" You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn. "

" Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. "

" I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do. "

" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "

" I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry. "

" I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do. "

" I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes. "

" 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 had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. "

" I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins. "

" I have a great memory. "

" My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. "

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" 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. "

" I liked myself better when I wasn't me. "

" My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. "

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