I don’t hate Charles. I just want my life to count for something. Everyone thinks I just walked out on a paralyzed man. But after he had his stroke, he couldn’t hang on to me. And I realized for the first time that I was at peace. Carol Channing Read Quote
I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don’t have an agenda or a structure to my days. Carol Channing Read Quote
I’ve gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice – and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper. Carol Channing Read Quote
You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you’ve got to be in the theater. Carol Channing Read Quote
The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn’t want to be. Carol Channing Read Quote
I can’t understand people missing a show because they’re sick: They’ve missed their best performance. You have an obstacle to overcome, and you reach for the heavens, and, doggone it, the heavens answer you. Carol Channing Read Quote
I just never had time to follow sports. When you’re working as often as I was, eight shows a week, you just don’t have time to develop interests outside of the theatre. Carol Channing Read Quote
I can’t remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time. Carol Channing Read Quote
I still meet with friends, and I’m enjoying life at 97 here in Palm Springs. They are trying to establish a new theater here in the desert, and if they raise enough money, I understand they might be calling it The Carol Channing Playhouse. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? What an honor that would be. Carol Channing Read Quote
We couldn’t let anyone know about it at the time, but I wasn’t all that healthy at times. I was battling cancer and had to have treatment in New York once a week, so Mr. Merrick arranged for me to fly out after the show on Sunday, from wherever we were touring, to see my doctor on Monday and fly back in time for the show on Tuesday. Carol Channing Read Quote
