Beatrice Arthur Quotes (12 Quotes)

As part of your legacy to the world, I hope you will consider making a bequest or other planned gift to PETA.

It didn't dawn on me that we were olderelderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.

It's a very difficult thing to master. I don't think that many people have the light touch that comedy commands.

I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also.

I said that in the show-that at age 8 I was already 5'8 12 and had a deep voice, but that's not true. I do know I was always taller than anyone, maybe taller than the teacher, I don't remember.

After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me... so he said I should try comedy... and I've been hooked ever since.

It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

My opening night at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis... has a thrust stage. I thought I was walking into the wings, and I walked right into the pit.

I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.

I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.

When something is written for the stage, I think it's wrong to try to make it bigger. Very few things out there make that jump easily.

You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.