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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
- Plus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
- Relief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
- Help Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great memory.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.
- Cast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
- Nov 07, 2020
We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
- Ball
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- Nov 07, 2020