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" 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. "

" Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. "

" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "

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

" I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland. "

" I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany. "

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

" I'm not a person who likes to confront. "

" I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time. "

" 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.' "

" I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism. "

" I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that. "

" If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all. "

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

" Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant. "

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

" Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story. "

" 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. "

" It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington. "

" 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. "

" Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. "

" I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows. "

" It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run. "

" Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. "

" When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?' "

" Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids. "

" When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh. "

" I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. "

" 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. "

" 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. "