Top 17 Quotes by Doris Roberts

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.