Brice Quotes

#1. One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

Barbra Streisand

#2. I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

Arne Glimcher

#3. One of these days, you keep asking, Brice, and I might scare you to death and say yes. I'd turn into a clingy, nagging witch and drive you nuts

Christine Feehan

#4. The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack

Frank De Felitta

#5. Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Fanny Brice

#6. When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.

Fanny Brice

#7. It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

Lee Brice

#8. Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.

Brice Marden

#9. Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

Brice Marden

#10. I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Brice Marden

#11. Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.

Lee Brice

#12. No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked.

Fanny Brice

#13. When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

Brice Marden

#14. I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

Brice Marden

#15. I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company.

Fanny Brice

#16. A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

Brice Marden

#17. Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.

Fanny Brice

#18. I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

Brice Marden

#19. When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Lee Brice

#20. Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

Brice Marden

#21. I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

Brice Marden

#22. Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

Lee Brice

#23. Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"

Lee Brice

#24. Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#25. I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

Brice Marden

#26. Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Fanny Brice

#27. The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.

Brice Marden

#28. I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go.

Brice Marden

#29. Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

Lee Brice

#30. I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

Brice Marden

#31. I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

Brice Marden

#32. Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Fanny Brice

#33. I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there was a name for it.

Carleen Brice

#34. Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

Fanny Brice

#35. Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

Fanny Brice

#36. Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

Fanny Brice

#37. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

Fanny Brice

#38. Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

Fanny Brice

#39. The truth is, I think country music ... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

Lee Brice

#40. Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

Fanny Brice

#41. When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

Brice Marden

#42. In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.

Brice Marden

#43. I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

Shirley Brice Heath

#44. A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

Brice Marden

#45. I don't dance, But here I am
Spinning you around and around in circles
It Ain't my style, but I don't care
I'd do anything with you anywhere
Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand
Cause, I don't dance.

Lee Brice

#46. Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

Brice Marden

#47. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Fanny Brice

#48. I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

Brice Marden

#49. Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Fanny Brice

#50. He was a hard man, but what else would he be? He had stood in the shield wall, he had watched the Danes come to the attack, and he had lived. He was no youngster.

Bernard Cornwell

#51. For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

Fanny Brice

#52. Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Lee Brice

#53. These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.

Brice Marden

#54. The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

Shirley Brice Heath

#55. When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to.

Lee Brice

#56. I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

Fanny Brice

#57. You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

Fanny Brice

#58. I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

Brice Marden

#59. Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

Brice Marden

#60. Be a best friend. Tell the truth. Overuse 'I love you'.

Lee Brice

#61. Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Brice Marden

#62. I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

Fanny Brice

#63. You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor.

Brice Marden

#64. I love the healthy exchange of information.

Brice Marden

#65. If you gotta label me, label me proud.

Lee Brice

#66. Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Brice Marden