I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Calm yourself and you calm your storm.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I was a huge Della Reese fan, when Della Reese was on. I idolized all the panelists. I was in love with Kitty Carlisle. Nipsey Russell, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene Rayburn.

I'm really not that fierce.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.