Fran Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Fran Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.— Fran Lebowitz
My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.— Andy Serkis
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.— Fran Lebowitz
I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.— Jack Nicholson
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.— Fran Drescher
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.— Fran Lebowitz
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?— Fran Lebowitz
There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.— Fran Veal
If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.— Fran Lebowitz
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.— Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.— Fran Lebowitz
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.— Fran Kranz
One soul at a time, one book at a time, the goal of changing racist actions and behavior as described in my book, FAMILY SECRETS: A JOURNEY OF GOD AND EVIL.— Fran White
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.— Fran Drescher
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.— Fran Tarkenton
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.— Fran Lebowitz
I have a deal worked out with the things that hide in my basement. After I shut off the lights, I have exactly ten seconds to leave safely. I always use the full ten seconds, hoping to see a flash of movement just as I reach safety.— Fran Krause
Money ... buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors ... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.— Fran Lebowitz
I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.— Fran Krause
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??— Fran Lebowitz
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.— Fran Lebowitz
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.— Fran Lebowitz
Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.— Fran Lebowitz
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.— Fran Lebowitz
CHEESE WATER HAS REACHED BOILING POINT.' 'Cheese water,' Fran chuckled. 'Wait! Where— Sibeal Pounder
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.— Fran Lebowitz
The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.— Fran Lebowitz
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.— Fran Lebowitz
Sometime your only blocks are you.... Stop thinking small and play with the unlimited power you have been given.— Fran Leigh
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.— Fran Lebowitz
Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.— Fran Drescher
Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.— Fran Lebowitz
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.— Fran Lebowitz
You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.— Fran Lebowitz
People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.— Fran Lebowitz
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.— Fran Lebowitz
Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.— Fran Lebowitz
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.— Fran Lebowitz
The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.— Fran Lebowitz
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.— Fran Lebowitz
I'm continually surprised at how much hurt people carry around with them. People who smile and ask you how your day is going can have their mind being ripped apart in ways you could never have conceived. People carry around so many layers of hurt.— Fran Seen
There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.— Fran Lebowitz
Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places. F— Fran Lebowitz
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!— Fran Lebowitz
Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.— Fran Lebowitz
Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.— Fran Lebowitz
If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.— Edward Medina
Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.— Fran Lebowitz
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.— Fran Drescher
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.— Fran Tarkenton
Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment— Fran Lebowitz
it's a second opinion.
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.— Fran Lebowitz
A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.— Fran Lebowitz
If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'— Fran Lebowitz
[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.— Fran Lebowitz
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.— Fran Lebowitz
The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.— Fran Lebowitz
This is a subject I've given a lot of thought to, and I think I have the answer. I've tried to encompass in my theory all the sociological, mythological, religious, philosophical, muscular, economic, cultural, musical, physical, ethical, intellectual, metaphysical, anthropological, gynecological, historical, hormonal, environmental, judicial, legal, moral, ethnic, governmental, linguistic, psychological, schizophrenic, glottal, racial, poetic, dental [this was the logical link] artistic, military, and urinary considerations from prehistoric times to the present.I have been able to synthesize these considerations into one inescapable formulation: men can knock the shit out of women.— Fran Ross
Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.— Fran Lebowitz
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.— Fran Lebowitz
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.— Fran Kranz
When you do for other people (Fran's daddy said once upon a time when he was drunk, before he got religion) things that they could do for themselves, but they pay you to do it instead, you both will get used to it.— Kelly Link
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.— Fran Lebowitz
The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out.— Fran Macilvey
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.— Fran Lebowitz
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.— Fran Lebowitz
Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.— Fran Lebowitz
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Finding love is all about taking a risk, taking control of your social life, and knowing that you won't waste today because tomorrow is a gift.— Fran Greene
By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.— Fran Lebowitz
Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.— Fran Lebowitz
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.— Fran Drescher
Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.— Fran Lebowitz
I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!— Ian Ziering
I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"— Fran Lebowitz
Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.— Fran Lebowitz
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer— Fran Lebowitz
not a book.
Every day, you save yourself, even when you don't feel up to it.— Fran Seen
There are certain things - How to say this? OK. Let me give you an example. Can I give you an example? There's a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's at Kenwood House, very close to where we live. It's one of my favorite paintings. I go to see it quite a lot. I start off on a walk on the Heath, and then I find myself there. It's one of the last self-portraits he did. He painted it sometime between 1665 and when he died four years later, bankrupt and alone. Whole stretches of the canvas are bare. There's a hurried intensity in the strokes - you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush. It's as if he knew there wasn't much time left. And yet, there's a serenity in his face, a sense of something that's survived its own ruin.— Nicole Krauss
Fran couldn't give two shits about that painting.
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like— Fran Lebowitz
here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.— Tom Shales
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.— Fran Kranz
Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.— Fran Lebowitz
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.— Fran Lebowitz
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.— Fran Lebowitz
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.— Fran Lebowitz
None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.— Fran Tarkenton
The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.— Fran Lebowitz
Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.— Fran Lebowitz
He rolled his eyes at Suren. He couldn't stand the sound of that sow's voice. Hearing her say his name was especially traumatic. About as traumatic as, say, being stuck in an elevator for eternity with a coked-up Gilbert Gottfried arguing with a methed-up Fran Drescher while a drunk Harvey Fierstein attempted to mediate.— Aaron Overfield
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.— Fran Lebowitz
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.— Fran Tarkenton
Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.— Fran Lebowitz
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.— Fran Lebowitz
A salad is not a meal, it is a style.— Fran Lebowitz
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.— Fran Lebowitz
Merton. Gethsemani required a vow of silence, and at dinner if you wanted salt, you had to stare hard at the shaker until another brother noticed. One day, cutting down a tree, Jack couldn't contain himself. He held his head back and roared, "Timber." After that, his days at the monastery were numbered. Within a couple of years, he had married, and he and his young wife, Fran, who herself had just spent a year in a nunnery, opened a Catholic Worker farm in eastern Missouri for recovering alcoholics.— Alex Kotlowitz
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.— Fran Lebowitz
I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.— Fran Tarkenton
Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.— Fran Lebowitz
People treat you the way they feel about themselves, I reminded myself, trying to ignore the sting of his words.— Fran Seen
