I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.
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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.Beatrice Arthur
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.
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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.
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I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also.
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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.
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