If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

I liked myself better when I wasnt me.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

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'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.