Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn’t a mean thought in his body. I’ve always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can’t say I’m glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.
I had a good loud voice and I wasn’t afraid to be goofy or zany.
No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then – I guess it’s still the same way – you had to take an acting class.
You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it’s the disease that’s hating you, not them.
No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.
I always had a weak chin because we couldn’t afford to correct my bite, which could have been corrected with braces. So the chin was always weak. And I always was – kind of hated my profile. And I thought wouldn’t it be nice someday to feel the rain on your chin without having to look up.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
I don’t have false teeth. Do you think I’d buy teeth like these?
We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.
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.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
I think we’re here for each other.
The audience is never wrong.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned.