Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.

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 enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.