Estelle Getty Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

Estelle Getty

#3. The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

Estelle Getty

#4. Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Tony Blair

#5. People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

Estelle Getty

#6. Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.

Estelle Getty

#7. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Estelle Getty

#8. You can do anything you want to do.

Estelle Getty

#9. So much in life came down to timing.

Kate Morton

#10. Or was the entire idea of the "gentleman" a farce?

Tiffany Reisz

#11. Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.

Lauren Willig

#12. sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.

Estelle Getty

#13. My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get an email where he tells me he's heading off on a mission to do terrain avoidance 50 feet above the ground at 500 knots. And I just say, "Okay, have a good flight."

Julie Payette

#14. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#15. Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")

Walter De La Mare

#16. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'

Estelle Getty

#17. I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

Estelle Getty

#18. Believe me. Everything is meant.

Ali Smith