Quotes from Cloris Leachman

The stuff that's made up about Jesus - that you have to go through Jesus to get to God and if you're lucky, after you die, if you've done everything right, the reward is you get to sit on the right hand side of God. All that is made up by men. People made it up.

I'm so sick of Betty White.

Don't eat sugar. It's stupid.

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

I was Miss Chicago in 1946.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

I live a very leisurely life. When I do work, it's not work: it's great fun and exciting and fresh. New, wonderful, talented people. It's great pleasure and great fun.

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey.

If you brush your teeth, you don't want to eat something right after because your mouth feels so fresh. So brushing your teeth actually prevents you from eating until later.

Im having an amazing life and it isnt over yet.

I don't feel like I'm really in the public eye because I feel like I'm one of the public.

I don't look for roles, for they come to me. Mind you, it's not like I'm sitting in the middle of the floor with thousands of scripts around me. When work comes up, it's good. I love it. Work doesn't feel like work.

I stopped eating meat when I was 35. Thank God.

I always wanted to be healthy and look good. I taught myself in my mid thirties about eating right.

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?

Some parts stay with me for weeks afterward. It's these people that I play. They get under my skin, and I just can't let go of them. I have immersed myself into their lives and into their beings so much that they feel like a part of me.

In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people.

I am from Des Moines, Iowa - not even the city but out in the country. I don't have a lot of trappings, I think, in my personality. I'm just a simple person with a silly bone.

If I were to do some outlandish role, I always made sure I'd be on Johnny Carson to show that I wasn't that person that I played. I'd be myself. And so people got to know me, I think, and I think they know that I'm honest and truthful and real.

Extraordinary miracles, billions and trillions of them, happen all the time, but not because there's a God.