That's how you get ants!" — Malory Archer

  • Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
  • Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.
  • I never had a doubt about wanting to be an actress, but certainly when there were periods of unemployment, I would think, "Oh, I'm never going to work again." The only thing I don't like about it is the business part of it - the negotiating and all this stuff that you don't learn in school. I'm not good with business.
  • My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.
  • I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.
  • Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?
  • When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

Jessica Walter, ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer’ Star, Dies at 80. Walter’s career spanned five decades. She starred in Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut “Play Misty for Me” in 1971. Additional film roles include “Grand Prix” and “The Group.” Most people today know Walter for either her Emmy-nominated turn as Bluth family matriarch Lucille on “Arrested Development” and her voice role on FX’s longrunning animated comedy “Archer,” where she played Malory Archer, the mother of H. John Benjamin’s Sterling Archer. Walter won an Emmy for her lead role in “Amy Prentiss.” Walter also received Emmy nominations for her roles in “The Streets of San Francisco” in 1977 and “Trapper John, M.D.” in 1980. She was born in 1941 in Brooklyn and grew up in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria. She got her start in the 1960s, winning the Clarence Derwent Award in 1963 for Outstanding Debut Broadway Performance for “Photo Finish.” Her first TV role came on the CBS soap opera “Love of Life” in 1962.