Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

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They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

Rue McClanahan

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Rue McClanahan

We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.

Rue McClanahan

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan

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.

Rue McClanahan

The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.

Rue McClanahan

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

Rue McClanahan

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

Rue McClanahan

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

Rue McClanahan

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

Rue McClanahan

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

Rue McClanahan

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Sherilyn Fenn

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

Graham Kennedy

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

Jackson Browne

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

Tina Yothers

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Dylan Moran

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

Boy George

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

Wanda Sykes

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Robert Collier

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

Frank Dane

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

Bobby Farrelly

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

Jim Fowler

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Fred Allen

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

Ashley Tisdale

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

Sergio Aragones

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

Barry Manilow

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

Mike Epps

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

Cathy Guisewite

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

Samantha Bee

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

Neil LaBute

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

Robert Goulet

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

Seth MacFarlane

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

Carrot Top

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

Joel McHale

Rue McClanahan

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Rob Walton

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

Simon Pegg

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

Martin Short

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Sam Kinison

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

Donald O'Connor

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Brian P. Cleary

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

Parker Posey

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Steve Harvey

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Bernhard Langer