Quotes from Judy Gold


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Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.


My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.


Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.


Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.


My partner and I had our first son in 1996, and the office became the baby's room. Our second son was born in 2001, and the office became the kids' room.


There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.


There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.


The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.


'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.


The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.


To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.


People always think you have a lot of money when they see you on TV.


My two sons are the biggest pigs - always dirty, sweaty, burping and farting.


My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.


My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.


Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.


Joan Rivers was my hero.


Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.


It's fun to be someone else.


In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting.