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Sally Struthers Quotes

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Memorable Quotes from Sally Struthers

3 quotes
Reflections on Self-Worth and Acceptance
Palm Apodaca People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons? Well, he's always picking on himself and his friends. They're always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys too. Except they do something out in the open that I don't go for.
Catherine Van Oost You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something - how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?
Betty When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says, "You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes, "Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going, "Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me.
[grabs her cheeks with both her hands; presses one finger on her chin; holds one hand over her chin]
Naming the Cat in The Getaway
Laughlin What's the cat's name.
Fran Clinton Poor Little Harold.
Laughlin Strange name for a cat.
Discussion on Appearance and Authenticity
Betty That's a wig you wear, isn't it?
Bobby Me?
Betty Yeah, I told her it was you but that you were wearin a wig because on the TV you're mostly all, uh - bald up there!
[pats him on the head; laughs]
Bobby Your, your little friend's real, real sharp. Uh, I don't, uh, I don't wear the wig on TV because if you're gonna be out there in front of two and a half million people, you've got to be sincere. I mean, I like to wear it when I'm in bowling alleys and slipping around, stuff like that. I think it gives me a little class. What do you think?
[laughs]