“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.”

Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox’s legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me…. her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

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!

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There’s a lot of crap out there.

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there’s no juice in that for me.

I can’t imagine working without and audience.

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.

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.

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.

I’m not playing a role. I’m being myself, whatever the hell that is.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

I believe that you’re here on Earth for a short time, and while you’re here, you shouldn’t forget it.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I’d like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I’m not Mother Teresa. I can’t do that.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

All this time I’ve just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation.

You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we’ve got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives’ story lines

Because I don’t have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it’s always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.

Things don’t always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it’s complicated.