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It's always something
I'm not really an impersonator.
Humor is just truth, only faster!
[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.
I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.
My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.
There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.
I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.
Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
When Gene makes a movie, the people who work on it have such a love for him that the set is always a happy place.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
When the journalists asked Gene, 'Why didn't you marry the beautiful girl in 'The Woman in Red'?' he would always reply, 'I did!'
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.
Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.
We were married in the south of France because Gene loved France. If he could have been born French, he would have been - that was his dream.
It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.
In our show we know, if we're not getting a response, you see it in our face... we either do something to get a laugh, or the audience is in on it with us.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.
There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.
I had been a fan of Gene Wilder's for many years, but the first time I saw him in person, my heart fluttered - I was hooked. It felt like my life went from black and white to Technicolor.
I would rather be funny than gorgeous, absolutely. Because it's too hard to be gorgeous, you know. I could make a stab at gorgeous as long as I had something funny to say to get out of it.
You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.
I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.
I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.
Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
I don't miss 'Saturday Night Live.' I feel less of a need for the fulfillment that performance used to give... I don't have to do everything right away. As long as I can walk and jump, I'll still perform, but I no longer feel such a compulsion.
I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.
It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.