Rue McClanahan quotes:

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

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

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.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

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.

We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.

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

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

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

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.

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

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

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.