Quotes from Rita Rudner


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I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.


If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.


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.


While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.


I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.


I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs.


On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'


My Vegas act is how I make my money.


My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.


My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.


I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.


I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.


I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.


I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.


We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.


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.


Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?


Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?


In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.


I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.