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My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.

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I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

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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.

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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

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I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

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Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

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Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

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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.

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We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.

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I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that.

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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.

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I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!

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I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry.

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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.

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Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.

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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

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I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

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I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

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I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.

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I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

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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?

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

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I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

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