When you start explaining why something’s funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.
My mother always used to say: ‘The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.’
I’m blessed with learning easily. I’ve always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I’ll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.
Humor is like a rhythm; it’s like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.
Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I’m blessed with good health. That’s the bottom line.
One thing they don’t tell you about growing old – you don’t feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it’s true. I don’t feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.
If the guy’s a cutie, you’ve gotta tap that booty.
Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren’t for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
Of course, nobody’s tearing my door down. If you’re successful you’re going to intimidate and scare off the people you’d like to spend time with. They’re not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
I’m wearing a put-together from a little shop that I favor called the back of my closet.
I’m just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don’t have time to think about retiring.
Retirement is not in my vocabulary.
A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
I have the backbone of an eel.
You gotta use everything you possibly can!
I’ve always liked older men. They’re just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren’t that many left!
I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She’s kinda a creep but she’s got a pool.
Literally it’s the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don’t want to share your hoogencogles with.
I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I’m so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.