I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.