Beatrice Arthur
Beatrice Arthur
Beatrice Arthur, also known as Bea Arthur, was an American actress, comedian, and singer. Her career spanned seven decades...
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth13 May 1922
CityNew York City, NY
actress odd people playing sings
At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
comedy difficult light people touch
It's a very difficult thing to master. I don't think that many people have the light touch that comedy commands.
cause dawn felt further mature people
It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.
brilliant gotten lucy money production terribly
Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it.
age deep maybe taller
I said that in the show-that at age 8 I was already 5'8" 1/2 and had a deep voice, but that's not true. I do know I was always taller than anyone, maybe taller than the teacher, I don't remember.
almost judy maybe money raising supports
You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
few jump written wrong
When something is written for the stage, I think it's wrong to try to make it bigger. Very few things out there make that jump easily.
happened situations using
I'm using things that happened to me. Recollections of situations and friends.
audience fun heard
I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.
billy director earned emmy met musical
I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.
course lives lose since swear york
It's difficult, since Rue lives in New York now, and Estelle is not well at all. It's very sad. Of course, while you're working, you're like family. You swear you'll never lose each other, and then of course you do.
beatles elderly four screaming
It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
both cast extremely great imagine
I can't imagine working without and audience. And we had a great cast in both shows. And the great writers, directors-I was extremely lucky.
talk tv
I actually talk a lot about how TV has changed.