Mcclanahan Quotes

#1. The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan.

Joan Rivers

#2. I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

Scott McClanahan

#3. Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough.

Scott McClanahan

#4. Dumbbells are pretty easy to come by, but since many of them are married, I suggest lifting weights. Youth

Rue McClanahan

#5. I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Rue McClanahan

#6. Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

Rue McClanahan

#7. Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.

Rebecca McClanahan

#8. To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

Rebecca McClanahan

#9. There was one face that looked like another face before it and then another face that looked like the face before it. This went all the way back until the beginning of time. Who knew what this face would look like a thousand years from now. Me?

Scott McClanahan

#10. I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Rue McClanahan

#11. Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Scott McClanahan

#12. I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

Scott McClanahan

#13. Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

Rue McClanahan

#14. Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Rue McClanahan

#15. Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.

Rebecca McClanahan

#16. Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Rue McClanahan

#17. We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.

Rue McClanahan

#18. That's the best way to do anything--get a bunch of poor people to do it.

Scott McClanahan

#19. Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Rue McClanahan

#20. Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

Rebecca McClanahan

#21. I felt darkness because i had been deep in the hollers, and i knew glory because i had stood on top of the beautiful mountaintops. more mountaintops please. more mountaintops.

Scott McClanahan

#22. Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

Rebecca McClanahan

#23. We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

Rue McClanahan

#24. I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

Rebecca McClanahan

#25. I knew he believed in something that none of us ever do anymore. He believed in the nastiest word in the world. He believed in KINDNESS. Please tell me you remember kindness. Please tell me you remember kindness and joy, you cool motherfuckers.

Scott McClanahan

#26. I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

Rue McClanahan

#27. A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.

Rebecca McClanahan

#28. I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Rue McClanahan

#29. The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Rue McClanahan

#30. They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

Rue McClanahan

#31. The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.

Rue McClanahan

#32. Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Rue McClanahan