"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."

"I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh."

"Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief."

"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 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."

"I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts."

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

"I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper."

"I eat very well, and I do Pilates."

"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"

"My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen."

"I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical."

"When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it!"

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

"Cavort, dear, just cavort"

"I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there."

"I liked myself better when I wasn't me."

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."

"I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that."

"Because nobody goes through life without a scar."

"We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted."

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

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

"I'm so happy with what has happened in my life."