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Vote:   | After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno. |
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Vote: | After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me... so he said I should try comedy... and I've been hooked ever since. |
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Vote: | As part of your legacy to the world, I hope you will consider making a bequest or other planned gift to PETA. |
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Vote: | At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit. |
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Vote: | From your mouth to God's ears. |
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Vote: | I actually talk a lot about how TV has changed. |
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Vote: | I can't imagine working without and audience. And we had a great cast in both shows. And the great writers, directors-I was extremely lucky. |
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Vote: | I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981. |
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Vote: | I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows. |
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Vote: | I said that in the show-that at age 8 I was already 5'8" 1/2 and had a deep voice, but that's not true. I do know I was always taller than anyone, maybe taller than the teacher, I don't remember. |
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Vote: | I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy. |
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Vote: | I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also. |
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Vote: | I was in Threepenny Opera, and I left it to understudy for Tallulah. That's how I got my Equity card. |
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Vote: | I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that. |
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Vote: | I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. |
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Vote: | I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response. |
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Vote: | I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is. |
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Vote: | I'm really not an invalid. |
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Vote: | I'm using things that happened to me. Recollections of situations and friends. |
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Vote: | I've done musical revues mostly. |
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Vote: | It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women. |
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Vote: | It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful. |
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Vote: | It's a very difficult thing to master. I don't think that many people have the light touch that comedy commands. |
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Vote: | It's difficult, since Rue lives in New York now, and Estelle is not well at all. It's very sad. Of course, while you're working, you're like family. You swear you'll never lose each other, and then of course you do. |
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Vote: | Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. |
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Vote: | Lucy was lovely. |
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Vote: | Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it. |
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Vote: | Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. |
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Vote: | My opening night at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis... has a thrust stage. I thought I was walking into the wings, and I walked right into the pit. |
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Vote: | My vagina can't give a monologue! |
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Vote: | No fruit. No veggie. |
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Vote: | On behalf of my friends at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals... thank you for considering a bequest or other planned gift to support PETA's vital and lifesaving work for animals. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. |
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Vote: | The head of the school took one look at me-this tall lady with enormous breasts... and a very deep voice-and cast me in all of these classical parts, Clytemnaestra and lots of Shakespeare. Then it came as a great shock after I graduated that Broadway was not hiring young American Shakespearean actors. |
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Vote: | There were subjects we tackled that had never been even discussed, like I had an abortion. Nobody ever talked about that. |
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Vote: | Well, Marlon had graduated from my school a couple of years earlier. But we were together at the Actor's Studio. Everybody was there, Jimmy Dean... And back then I saw Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope... She's an old lady now-Judith Anderson! I saw her play Medea. It was so exciting; there was so much theater to see. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | When something is written for the stage, I think it's wrong to try to make it bigger. Very few things out there make that jump easily. |
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Vote: | You knew by looking at what they were wearing what their characters were. Betty always wore some kind of a shirt-dress with little buttons, and Rue, of course, wore these things that were such outlandishly bad taste. |
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Vote: | You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. |
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Vote: | You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS. |