JUDY GOLD

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

I've gotten resistance for my entire career.

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

Joan Rivers was my hero.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

It's fun to be someone else.

For me, humor is everything!

In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting.

'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

I love being a Givenik Ambassador. Not only does it give me a platform to discuss my favorite charities, but I get to talk about my other favorite topic - 'The Judy Show!'

I always dreamed of living in N.Y.C.

Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.