Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

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.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

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.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.