Rue McClanahan Quotes

United States, Actress
February 21, 1934 – June, 3, 2010.

Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–78), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983–84), and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985–92), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987.

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.

Rue McClanahan
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

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

Rue McClanahan
Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

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- Film
- Bigs
- Producers
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.

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- Different
- Kids
- Audience
We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

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- Dog
- Cat
Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

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- Interesting
- Sex
- Sound

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

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

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- Shows
- Hours
- Ready
I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Rue McClanahan
- Character
- Stills