Rue McClanahan Quotes

"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count."

"People always ask me if I`m like Blanche. And I say, `Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta -- and I`m not from Atlanta!`"

We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn`t available anymore.

The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.

I didn`t know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I`ve been going in two hours before the show every performance.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

The matinee audiences are different because they`re mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Actually, it took a while for people to realize that I was here - that I really wasn`t still in LA. I mean, I`ve been in New York since `97!

I`ve been allowed to develop my own character, which I`m still working on.