Rue McClanahan Quotes

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.

I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

I was the class clown when I was a little young mustache.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I remember listening to Eddie Murphy's Delirious on cassette tape - you might have to explain what that is to your younger demographic - with my father. I wanted to make people laugh that hard.

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

I used to watch 'Private Resort' and laugh all the time.

I used to watch 'The Honeymooners' and laughed so much I'd fog up the inside of the lenses of my glasses.

I sort of as a kid was fascinated with all the fat comedians, like John Candy, John Belushi, Benny Hill.

I'm the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience 'hands up who had big hair in the 80s?'.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.