"I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible."

"I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach."

"I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes."

"I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it."

"Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt."

"I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life."

"I've definitely stolen a lot of things."

"Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are."

"I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do."

"Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong."

"Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's."

"I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!"

"During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs."

"When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do."

"Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives."

"Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!"

"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."

"If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing."

"Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods."

"I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time."

"I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most."

"I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will."

"Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not."

"I think older women still have a full life."