Doris Roberts Quotations

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them off.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

I have four other ones at home and this morning, I said, 'Girls, move over. I'm coming home with another one.' ... Everybody Loves Raymond.

Just because you're over 40 doesn't mean you're not hot, or talented, ... Look who won!

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

Wow, this is the icing on the cake.

I'm not a Southerner but, my God, my soul is, I think.

I'm from New York. I have a big mouth, and I hope we raise lots of money tonight and, more than that, the spirit of Mississippi because that has to happen. We have to bring it all back together again and feel it rising again.

That's a social barrier I don't think we're ready to cross. It's two different worlds. Believe me, I know the import of the relationship of one to the other. We as a society, I don't think, are ready to see a woman. ... It's just very hard for me to imagine that.

There is such ageism in our country. Just because you're over 40 doesn't mean you're still not hot or exciting or talented, or whatever.

This is the icing on the cake. Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond , and to finish it off like this is wonderful.