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
california towns small-town
I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.
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.
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.
roles hell being-myself
I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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!
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.
cutting broadway teeth
I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
actresses feels bits
I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
imagine audience i-can
I can't imagine working without and audience.
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.
blonde saw screen small star women
My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
involving
I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
adult along came life recurring secure spent tv wonderful
I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
fell night opening
Unfortunately opening night in Minneapolis I fell of the stage.