Doris Roberts quotes Her role as Marie Barone on TV series Everybody Loves Raymond Born: 11/04/1930 Country: usa

• A senator in Washington the other day said, We need you. We need that voice. Well, between working on Everybody Loves Raymond and writing a book, I have very little time. (Doris Roberts) [day/time]
• By the time you're 40, the kids are grown, out of the house or on their way out, and you have your whole life again. (Doris Roberts) [time/life]
• Everybody's a teacher if you listen. (Doris Roberts)
• Everything in life comes to an end. I've known loss. I've lost my husband, I've lost friends. When my husband died, I was devastated. (Doris Roberts) [life/start/loss]
• Get a group of very well-known people together and let them view movies that are coming out. (Doris Roberts) [group/people]
• Get as much sleep as you can-and have a lot of humour. (Doris Roberts) [humour]
• Have purpose; get involved. Help someone else. I am more active than anybody else in my Raymond cast. I love to learn something new every day. (Doris Roberts) [help/more/love/day]
• Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else. (Doris Roberts) [more/food/choice/life]
• I acknowledge all the people who touched my life and made it better, and for those who didn't, you're not in the book! (Doris Roberts) [people/life]
• I beg to do a serious role. I won an Emmy playing a bag lady on St. Elsewhere. But because I'm in a comedy now, most people think of me as comedic. (Doris Roberts) [role/lady/people/think]
• I believe in celebrating people, even though not everybody deserves to be. But those who do, I want to celebrate them. (Doris Roberts) [people]
• I didn't begin to really live fully until I was 40. (Doris Roberts)
• I don't consider myself old at all. In fact, that's the word I want deleted from our vocabulary. (Doris Roberts)
• I got married when I was 18. (Doris Roberts)
• I keep learning. The important thing about getting older is not to settle. The minute you settle, it's like a disease: if you give into it, become a victim, then you're dished. (Doris Roberts) [thing/disease/give]
• I lost my husband, my dear, great friend Jimmy Coco, and about four others all in a period of about three years. It sent me into analysis, which was helpful, but I survived. (Doris Roberts) [analysis]
• I miss them terribly, the ones I lost. But I am so grateful to have had them because they really touched and changed my life. (Doris Roberts) [life]
• I performed on Broadway for 22 years before I came to Hollywood. Lily Tomlin asked me to be on her special. (Doris Roberts)
• I raised a son and had the house and all that to worry about. But I didn't really begin to become a complete adult until I had the freedom to accept who I am and keep growing. (Doris Roberts) [worry]
• I say, the image-makers have taken away our light, and I urge you, bring it back! (Doris Roberts) [light]
• I think my mother did the best she could. She was a working mother, and there was no husband around. I did better than she did, and my son does better than I do. (Doris Roberts) [think/mother/mother]
• I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives. (Doris Roberts) [think/women]
• I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide. (Doris Roberts)
• I was raised in the Bronx, then moved to Manhattan with an aunt. Then I lived with my mother, finally. But Broadway was my home for 21 years before I came out to California. (Doris Roberts) [mother/housing]
• I would ask important people for money, and they'd give me the money but they'd say, Don't put my name on it. It only got acceptable after Rock Hudson died and Elizabeth Taylor got involved. I was doing it when it wasn't fashionable. (Doris Roberts) [people/money/give/money]
• I'm a combination of Ray Romano's mother, an Italian woman, and a German Jew. (Doris Roberts) [combination/mother]
• I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet. (Doris Roberts) [time]
• If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out. (Doris Roberts) [evil/life]
• If we're vital people... I'm 71 years old, and I couldn't be more vital, I don't think. My brain is functioning full-time, my body is good. (Doris Roberts) [people/more/think/brain]
• If you can laugh at me in that character, you can laugh at your own mother or mother-in-law, and you need to do that sometime in life. (Doris Roberts) [character/mother/life]
• If you let go of all the garbage, what's left is love and intelligence and caring and a warm happy glow in your body, your soul and your mind. An enjoyment of what you have. (Doris Roberts) [love/intelligence/soul & body/mind]

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