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Vote:   | And I hate autobiographies, I don't know why. |
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Vote: | And of course Mae West when I was very, very young, I thought she was the end. |
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Vote: | But at least I'm not playing other people for a change. |
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Vote: | But I did like the fact that we did a lot of good in presenting problems that had not been tackled before on television. |
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Vote: | But I've been doing it most of my adult life, and I like the idea of a one woman show, because it's something I can do when I want to, and not to it when I don't want to do it. |
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Vote: | But of course, it's very nice to have women realize that women our age can be attractive and well groomed and wear fabulous clothes and earrings, and have a sex life. |
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Vote: | But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time. |
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Vote: | Down in Florida it was an older audience, and it was interesting to see how they responded to things compared to other audiences, it's been very interesting. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Every time you perform you learn a little bit more. |
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Vote: | Except for one thing, I no longer do benefits for research, I do benefits to make sure the people who are infected are taken care of are treated, and fed and housed, and their lives made a little easier. |
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Vote: | Except I really wanted to be a small little blonde musical type in the movies. I wanted to be a starlet. |
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Vote: | For us it was really the same, because we did the show in front of a live audience, it was like being on stage. |
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Vote: | Having a recurring gay character in the 80's just wasn't feasable. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I can't imagine working without and audience. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. |
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Vote: | I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved. |
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Vote: | I don't think there was ever an embarrassment, there was such love going back and forth between the audience and us, that nothing was embarrassing. |
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Vote: | I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit. |
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Vote: | I guess having two kids who are bright and articulate and have great humor and are decent. |
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Vote: | I guess just, I don't know, I didn't know I was that vibrant, I just love being alive, and I love people, and I find something wonderful everyday. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I have decided that I don't want to do any more episodic television. |
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Vote: | I have two enormous Dobermans, they couldn't possibly fly with me. |
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Vote: | I love cooking, I love reading, I love anything that doesn't take too much exercise! |
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Vote: | I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio. |
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Vote: | I think the mother-daughter between Estelle and me was one made in comedy heaven. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! |
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Vote: | I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I've been blessed with both shows, with that and with Maude, working with terrific writers and directors. |
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Vote: | I've lost quite a bit of weight since I did Maude, but I don't see myself looking better, I think I look older. Because I am! |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling you how far you can go or what you can do. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In the show I actually talk a lot about how TV has changed. |
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Vote: | It was so bright and so adult. It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. |
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Vote: | It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how different it is from one night to the next. |
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Vote: | It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond. |
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Vote: | Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women. |
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Vote: | Life is filled with a lot of stuff, you know. There is never a dull moment. |
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Vote: | Maude's age, her outspokenness, make her real. For the first time, a person is coming on in a TV sitcom. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | No, no. I was never that involved in anything political actually. |
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Vote: | Now this goes to the grave with you - I hate cheesecake! |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | So what does it all mean? You become a popular TV personality. Fifteen million viewers weekly. Top ratings. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Some people say I'm only happy when I'm working, or not working, I'm happy whether I'm working or not, my animals, my kids, anything. |
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Vote: | That's another reason that I don't want to do any more series. It really took up more time than I should have allotted to it. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The only one I wanted to do that I didn't was Gypsy, but by the time they got around to asking me, everybody in the world had played it, so I thought now is not the time. |
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Vote: | There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't believe it. |
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Vote: | There was so much more we wanted to cover on the show, but since I couldn't get the network censors to budge, I decided to leave the show. |
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Vote: | They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Unfortunately opening night in Minneapolis I fell of the stage. |
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Vote: | When you are working with someone it's like family, you are together every day. |
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Vote: | Yes, but I've done musical revues mostly. |
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Vote: | Yes... a little bit, I think I am a bubble-pricker... I don't like anything phony. |
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Vote: | You see I feel we did the best work we could possibly do, I don't think the writing could be any better, so why go back to it? |