My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.

I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.