Quotes from 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.

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

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

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

Dumbbells are pretty easy to come by, but since many of them are married, I suggest lifting weights. Youth

real estate attracts crazies like a bundt cake attracts flies),

Not all important people are famous, and not all famous people are important. Let

Sometimes, honoring the memory of what we've lost is the only redemption we have.

The Shapiras brought me the book "The Road to Miltown" by S.J. Perelman, and I still have it. It's moved with me across the country, put up in innumerable bookshelves, for almost fifty years. It's showing signs of wear. (Hell, so am I, but we're both still good to take to bed.)

BOODLE'S ORANGE FOOL FOR FORTY FOLKS Pile four large sponge cakes into a great big punch bowl. Saturate them with the juice of sixteen oranges and eight lemons.

Answer: Because it's Life, darlings! Every loaf of bread must have its heel.

If men can be categorized for their looks on a scale of 1 to 10, they can also be graded for their sexual prowess, A to F." —MARGARET THATCHER I

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

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.

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

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