Cloris Leachman

I always wanted to be healthy and look good. I taught myself in my mid thirties about eating right.

I stopped eating meat when I was 35. Thank God.

In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people.

I live a very leisurely life. When I do work, it's not work: it's great fun and exciting and fresh. New, wonderful, talented people. It's great pleasure and great fun.

The stuff that's made up about Jesus - that you have to go through Jesus to get to God and if you're lucky, after you die, if you've done everything right, the reward is you get to sit on the right hand side of God. All that is made up by men. People made it up.

I don't think I'm my age. I'm truly 6 years old.

Extraordinary miracles, billions and trillions of them, happen all the time, but not because there's a God.

My family is who I spend my off-time with.

I don't look for roles, for they come to me. Mind you, it's not like I'm sitting in the middle of the floor with thousands of scripts around me. When work comes up, it's good. I love it. Work doesn't feel like work.