25 Quotes by Rue McClanahan

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.