Fanny 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. 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

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

Fanny Brice

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

Fanny Brice

#5. 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

#6. A handful of gems from Somni:
"One's environment is a key to one's identity."
"An impulse can be both vaguely understood and strong."
"What is knowledge for, if not used to better our/one's existence?"
"My IQ may be higher but she looked more content then I felt.

David Mitchell

#7. 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

#8. When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and as a failure.

Dean Koontz

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

Fanny Brice

#10. Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#11. Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#12. The bandstand is a sacred place.

Wynton Marsalis

#13. 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

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

Fanny Brice

#15. A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

Susan Sontag

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

Fanny Brice

#17. I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

Dolly Parton

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

Fanny Brice

#19. 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

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

Fanny Brice

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

Fanny Brice

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

Fanny Brice

#23. Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Isaac Asimov

#24. 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

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

Fanny Brice

#26. I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

Hanya Yanagihara

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

Fanny Brice

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

Fanny Brice

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

Fanny Brice