Barbie ruined my life! It’s a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed – because my heels didn’t touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What’s up with that? I think that it’s a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate. Rita Rudner Read Quote
I’m not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it’s up to me, and I go straight to the audience. Rita Rudner Read Quote
You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it. Rita Rudner Read Quote
I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren’t many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I’ll just try comedy. And I loved it. Rita Rudner Read Quote
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren’t too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Rita Rudner Read Quote
I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry – worrying takes a lot of energy. Rita Rudner Read Quote
I have to visualise my jokes, live my jokes, feel the audience because every audience is different. It’s like having a different dancing partner every night. Rita Rudner Read Quote
