83 Quotes by Bea Arthur

I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't believe it.

The only one I wanted to do that I didn't was Gypsy, but by the time they got around to asking me, everybody in the world had played it, so I thought now is not the time.

Life is filled with a lot of stuff, you know. There is never a dull moment.