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.

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

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

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

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.

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