“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.”

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.

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.

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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.

While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years.

I’m a songwriter. So I’m OK. But when I wrote “Stand By Me” as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it’s great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.