Love Quote by Doris Roberts

There is something delightfully unvarnished about Doris Roberts admitting, without apology, that she loves to show off her awards. In a culture that pressures women (especially older women) to perform humility as a kind of moral hygiene, the line lands as a small act of rebellion. It refuses the expected script: the coy deflection, the “I was just lucky,” the insistence that recognition doesn’t matter. Roberts cuts through that theater with a wink of candor.

The intent feels twofold. On the surface, it’s comic self-awareness: she knows bragging is “not done,” which is exactly why it’s funny. The slightly off-kilter phrasing (“show them of”) reads like speech in motion, the kind of unedited, real-life slip that makes the confession feel more intimate than polished. You can hear the laugh behind it: yes, I’m proud, and yes, I know you’re not supposed to say that.

The subtext is sharper. Awards, in Hollywood, aren’t just trophies; they’re proof of permanence in an industry built to forget you. For a sitcom actress who spent years being underestimated as “support,” loving the hardware is loving the evidence that the work counted. It’s also a quiet critique of the way public recognition gets framed as vanity when it’s simply validation, especially for performers whose labor is routinely dismissed as effortless charm.

Contextually, it fits Roberts’s persona: warm, comedic, blunt. She’s not asking permission to take pride; she’s taking it.