If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Some suggestions for you :

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I've lost my faith in science.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

Attempt the impossible only to improve your work.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.