I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.