"Instant gratification takes too long."

"Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice."

"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."

"Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids."

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

"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."

"I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that."

"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."

"I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy."

"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."

"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?"

"Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story."

"I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy."

"Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter."

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."

"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."

"As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing."

"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 had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany."

"I have a great memory."

"I really enjoy connecting with the audience."

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