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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Estelle Gettleman, known professionally as Estelle Getty, was an American
actress and comedian best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985β92), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress β Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role for appearances on Empty Nest (1993β95), The Golden Palace (1992β93), Blossom (1990β95), and Nurses (1991β94). Notable films in which she appeared include Mask (1985), a semibiographical film in which she played the grandmother of Roy L. Dennis, Mannequin , and Stuart Little (1999). She retired from acting in 2001 due to failing health, and died in 2008 from dementia with Lewy bodies.
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.
You can do anything you want to do.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.
People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.
Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'
Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.
The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.