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

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.

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

I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.

Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.

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

Talent is seductive.

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.

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

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 never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

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

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

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

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

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

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

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

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