Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur
Beatrice Arthur, also known as Bea Arthur, was an American actress, comedian, and singer. Her career spanned seven decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth13 May 1923
CountryUnited States of America
imagine audience i-can
I can't imagine working without and audience.
audience audiences hear rewarding
It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond.
audiences compared florida older
Down in Florida it was an older audience, and it was interesting to see how they responded to things compared to other audiences, it's been very interesting.
audiences front
For us it was really the same, because we did the show in front of a live audience, it was like being on stage.
audience forth love
I don't think there was ever an embarrassment, there was such love going back and forth between the audience and us, that nothing was embarrassing.
mother empty-rooms wish
I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.
animal hands years
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.
actresses feels bits
I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
cutting broadway teeth
I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
real actors just-being
I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
baseball lovely crowds
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
roles hell being-myself
I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
pressure roles movement
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
tv-shows play tvs
I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.