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" These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is. "

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

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

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

" There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time. "

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

" There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book. "

" There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful. "

" I'm loaded with talent. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police! "

" I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.' "

" New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' "

" The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect. "

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

" I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there. "

" 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. "

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

" All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party. "

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

" Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue. "

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

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

" Betty White is probably a very nice woman. "

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

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

" What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. "