“People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often ...” — Charlotte Rae Quote

“People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so warm and nurturing. I don't mind at all. I think it's very nice.”

“I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.”

“I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.”

“Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.”

“You hit a certain age and it's, are you still motivated to play? It's the motivation, the drive that kind of leads you, and the body goes, too.”

“I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.”