I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.

You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee.

If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.