 And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character. |
| Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them. |
| I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue. |
| I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me. |
| No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky. |
| A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. |
| You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. |
| Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. |
| Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up. |
| I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes. |
| There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg. |
| Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant. |
| And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly. |
| Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. |
| I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. |
| And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times. |
| Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany. |
| What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood. |
| But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them. |
| Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system. |
