Eve Arden

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.

I can't seem to say, 'You great big wonderful man, you,' without hamming it up somehow.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

I love making people laugh.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.

If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too - but about more important things.

I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.

I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.