Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.
Ruth Buzzi

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.
Ruth Buzzi

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.
Ruth Buzzi

I got everybody on my side through comedy.
Ruth Buzzi

I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.
Ruth Buzzi

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
Ruth Buzzi

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.
Ruth Buzzi

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!
Ruth Buzzi

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.
Ruth Buzzi

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!
Ruth Buzzi


The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.
Ruth Buzzi

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
Ruth Buzzi