Top 100 Fran Quotes
#1. that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation of
William Edgar
#2. To Fran, for choosing me over a rich guy.
John Hafnor
#3. There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
Kate Reardon
#4. As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
Iggy Azalea
#5. They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.'
Mom (Fran)
Jack Gantos
#6. But you have to remember, Fran, she's too old to change, but you are getting old enough to understand that.
Stephen King
#7. This, too, was part of losing Fran: watching all the things she'd made better with her presence fade blacker than they'd been before she came along.
Seanan McGuire
#8. 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
#9. Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.
Charlize Theron
#10. In my talks with Coach Fran, I did tell him, "Fran, the worst thing you can do is take the job and then leave in two years, if we go on probation." He told me I had nothing to worry about, that he would be in it for the long haul.
Mal Moore With Steve Townsend
#11. I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.
John Waters
#12. Fran laughed. I still feel like we're kids, but just pretending to be adults. I thought there would be this turning point where you would just wake up one day, and bam! You're mature!
Sean Kennedy
#13. 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
Tom Shales
#14. Why do anything if the apex of human development is Fran Drescher?
Noah Cicero
#15. My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
Amber Stevens
#16. 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
#17. 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.
Peter Jackson
#18. Fran grounded out to the pitcher. Max popped a weak single to right field. Brendan struck out swinging. But the Tigers hopes for a winning season were down to the last out.
Fred Bowen
#19. Fran? Frances Hill, you stop that right now! What the devil's got into you? Ada, you should be ashamed! Braying like a mule, you are! And you, Mattie Gokey ... would you like to tell me what could possibly be so funny?
Jennifer Donnelly
#20. I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
Ian Ziering
#21. 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
#22. Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.
Chloe Sutton
#23. Over here you'll see San Fran is also host to a wide variety of exotic animals. Many find our streets to be like a modern rain forest," she says, indicating a flock of flea-ridden pigeons pecking leftovers off a bum sleeping on the curb.
Sarah Noffke
#24. Aunt Fran lowered her voice. "Her cold is just the start of a greater sickness. These 'stories,' as you call them, will only lead her to more pain."
"Fran, talk plain, will you?"
"I'm talking about derangement."
"Don't be silly!"
She wispered. "And deviant behaviours.
Ami McKay
#25. Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
Tom Shales
#26. For is it not said That Girl Knows No Fear, and Dammit, Fran, She's Going To Get Herself Et, and This Is From Your Side Of The Family, Jonathan, No One In My Family Has Ever Hugged A Basilisk Before?
Seanan McGuire
#27. One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.
Tom Ford
#28. CHEESE WATER HAS REACHED BOILING POINT.' 'Cheese water,' Fran chuckled. 'Wait! Where
Sibeal Pounder
#29. He talks a lot, but he talks about cars and golf and keeping fit. Fran likes trivia, but she's more interested in female trivia than male. Teresa
Margaret Drabble
#30. Nice said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.
Tao Lin
#31. It's just going to add to him thinking that I am a crazy, wanky, greenie, hybriddriving hippie," I complained.
"Has he seen your bomb of a car?" Fran asked in disbelief. "Greenpeace arranges a protest every time it leaves your driveway.
Sean Kennedy
#32. If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.
Edward Medina
#33. Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
Won't fold under pressure ... grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.
Extra P
#34. Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.
Margaret Drabble
#35. Good Lord, just look at that six pack!" She sighed. "I think you could grate cheese there."
"Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese.
Amanda Laneley
#36. Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.
Tallulah Bankhead
#37. to do with Lottie's final wishes for her memoirs. With the help of Millie and Henry, Fran and
Meredith Kennon
#38. 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
#39. If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz
#40. The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
Fran Lebowitz
#41. 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
#42. I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Fran Drescher
#43. A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
Fran Lebowitz
#44. There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter
Fran Lebowitz
#45. Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.
Fran Lebowitz
#46. I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
Fran Lebowitz
#47. Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment
it's a second opinion.
Fran Lebowitz
#48. The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
Fran Lebowitz
#49. Please don't encourage or espouse e-piracy...the sharing, swapping, or trading of e-books is outlawed by the DMCA unless authorized by the copyright holder.
Fran Lee
#50. I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
Fran Lebowitz
#52. The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.
Fran Lebowitz
#53. Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
#54. I tried to quash my anger and fear. If I was being set up to fail, then I would fail spectacularly.
Fran Wilde
#55. 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
#56. I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
Fran Lebowitz
#57. I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
Fran Lebowitz
#58. Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz
#59. By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.
Fran Lebowitz
#60. My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz
#61. When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
Fran Lebowitz
#62. The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.
Fran Lebowitz
#63. Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
Fran Tarkenton
#64. It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.
Fran Lebowitz
#65. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#66. It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.
Francois Mauriac
#67. Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
#68. I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
Fran Lebowitz
#69. 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
#70. As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
Fran Kranz
#71. Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
Fran Lebowitz
#72. I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.
Fran Drescher
#74. I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
#75. White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
Fran Lebowitz
#76. Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.
Fran Lebowitz
#77. It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford being associated with someone who might at any given moment write a poem in public.
Fran Lebowitz
#78. I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
Fran Drescher
#79. I felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet.
Fran Macilvey
#80. Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.
Fran Lebowitz
#81. Those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.
Fran Lebowitz
#82. Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Fran Lebowitz
#83. If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
Fran Lebowitz
#84. Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
Fran Kranz
#85. Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
Fran Lebowitz
#86. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
Fran Lebowitz
#87. I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
Fran Lebowitz
#88. 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
#89. That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.
Fran Lebowitz
#90. Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.
Fran Drescher
#91. Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
#92. 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
#93. Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
Fran Lebowitz
#94. That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.
Fran Lebowitz
#95. Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
Fran Lebowitz
#97. Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher
#98. Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love.
Gregoire Delacourt
#99. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.
Fran Sorin
#100. Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
Fran Lebowitz
