My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

You know, I've had a helluva life.

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.