The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)

Robert Blake/Louie Anderson/Selma Diamond (1984)

Selma Diamond: Self

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• Selma Diamond : We, unfortunately, are living in a society where, when people look at you, they see fat, they see black, they see old. We seem to have lost a personal identity. I mean that! And I resent it. I actually resent it.

• Selma Diamond : I don't get depressed about anything. Because, uh... and I mean this - when you're depressed, nobody cares. So, uh, I'm cheerful - like now.

  Johnny Carson : ...You mean you're on a high now? What - what is a down trip like for you?

• Selma Diamond : [to Robert Blake]  I don't know why you have trouble with women; I don't have trouble with men. I mean, there are plenty of neurotic contemporaries of mine still around.

• Selma Diamond : I'll tell you what it is. The young people - and I don't care if you all get mad at me - the way you all voted, I'm not too thrilled with the way you went. But... they're not thinking. They - they only know what's going on now; they have not bothered to worry about what happened before, and the effect it's having now. And I mean this honestly. They're "now" people, which means nothing. You know, they know who Bruce is; what about Tommy Dorsey?