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" I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York. "

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" I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be. "

" You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening. "

" Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people. "

" I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me. "

" If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent. "

" My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting. "

" You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures. "

" There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. "

" Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life. "

" I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy. "

" Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. "

" I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself. "

" I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world! "

" I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday. "

" I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. "

" I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired. "

" Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.' "

" I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that. "

" Talent is seductive. "

" I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do. "

" I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy. "

" I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great. "

" I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner. "

" My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent. "

" As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. "

" Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing. "

" You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. "

" I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do. "