20 Quotes by 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.

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.

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.

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

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

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

It's difficult, since Rue lives in New York now, and Estelle is not well at all. It's very sad. Of course, while you're working, you're like family. You swear you'll never lose each other, and then of course you do.

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.

I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.