If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes -- I call them chocolate eyes -- I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'

I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny and Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds -- like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 -- it was tight, but I could get into it.

Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, 'Hey, let's just all get together and help each other be brilliant.'

That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?

Tragedy plus time equals humor.