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

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" I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that. "

" Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. "

" Talent is seductive. "

" I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide. "

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

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

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

" I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time. "

" My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable. "

" I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice. "

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

" 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. "

" I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it. "

" I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go. "

" I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. "

" When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly. "

" I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends - as soon as I'd say, 'I gotta go home now,' they fell in love. "

" There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform. "

" 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. "

" This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it. "

" When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't. "

" Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am? "

" I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here. "

" I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in. "

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

" I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons. "

" I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise. "