Bea Arthur Sayings

#1. I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.

Sherri Saum

#2. My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

Valerie Azlynn

#3. Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

Millicent Martin

#4. Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.

Leland Orser

#5. The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur.

Alisa Solomon

#6. In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.

Jim George

#7. You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Bea Arthur

#8. I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

Bea Arthur

#9. I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Bea Arthur

#10. PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Bea Arthur

#11. Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Bea Arthur

#12. I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

Bea Arthur

#13. I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

Bea Arthur

#14. I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

Bea Arthur

#15. I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

Bea Arthur

#16. I can't imagine working without and audience.

Bea Arthur

#17. Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Criss Jami

#18. I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

Bea Arthur

#19. I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Bea Arthur

#20. I ... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

Bea Arthur

#21. But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Bea Arthur

#22. Not sure how much longer she can continue her fight for the children or how much more of her there is to give, she pledged to keep going until she no longer can.

Kay Bratt

#23. My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

Bea Arthur

#24. I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

Bea Arthur

#25. It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Leon Battista Alberti

#26. I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

Naomi Novik

#27. I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

Bea Arthur

#28. All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

Bea Arthur

#29. Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me ... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Bea Arthur

#30. It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Christopher Bailey

#31. Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

Bea Arthur

#32. I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

Bea Arthur

#33. The boat is very close now, its noises filling the air along with the smell of fuel. Mark can see the faint shadow of two people behind the darkened window

James Dashner

#34. I hold the world but as the world ... - / A stage where every man must play a part

William Shakespeare

#35. In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

Bea Arthur

#36. Overall, people are reading less.

David Carson