In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

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

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

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

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.