Happiness Quote by Doris Roberts

Roberts frames comedy as something closer to public service than performance, and that modest pivot is the line’s real power. “With my talent” is direct but not boastful; it’s an acknowledgment of a tool she didn’t invent so much as inherit, sharpen, and survive with. Then she makes the effect of that tool concrete: not applause, not fame, but “another attitude about life.” That phrase lands because it’s practical. Laughter isn’t portrayed as escape, but as a quick recalibration - a way to step back from fear, bitterness, or routine and return with a slightly altered posture.

The subtext is working-actor realism. Roberts spent decades in the trenches before Everybody Loves Raymond turned her into a cultural shorthand for the formidable, hilarious mother. When you’ve lived through the churn of auditions, typecasting, and the industry’s impatience with aging women, “blessing” reads less like sentiment and more like astonishment that the work still matters and still reaches people. She’s also quietly defending comedy’s seriousness: if art can shift someone’s “attitude,” it’s doing psychological labor, not just killing time.

Context matters: Roberts came out of a 20th-century comedy tradition where women’s humor was often treated as shrill or secondary. By claiming the ability to change perspective, she reclaims authority. The line is gratitude, yes, but also a thesis: the highest aim of a laugh is not distraction - it’s relief with consequences.