Rhea Perlman Quotes

#1. I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.

Melissa Rauch

#2. It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

Peter Scolari

#3. It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Sherrod Brown

#4. I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

Hope Solo

#5. To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

Bertrand Russell

#6. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Rhea Perlman

#7. My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

Rhea Perlman

#8. Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long ... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle.

Rhea Perlman

#9. We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

Rhea Perlman

#10. It's not stupid to fight for what's yours,

Mindee Arnett

#11. I watched 'The Neighbors' when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent and say, 'You know, I like this show. If they're ever looking for somebody, I'd like to work with them.'

Rhea Perlman

#12. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. What strength had I to dart retaliation at my antagonist?

Charlotte Bronte

#14. In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

Sylvia Porter

#15. Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

Ben Zobrist

#16. Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

Rhea Perlman

#17. There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and you got some chemistry going, even if a show is taking a little while to find an audience, if you keep it there, that audience will find it. Because that's what happened with 'Cheers.'

Rhea Perlman

#18. Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Nydia Velazquez

#19. I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.

Rhea Perlman

#20. The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

Rhea Perlman

#21. Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.

Rhea Perlman

#22. Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.

Rhea Perlman

#23. I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and his racecar that he had built from scratch, fully loaded with whatever fantastical gadget he or I wanted him to have at the moment. I loved making up the stories off the top of my head.

Rhea Perlman

#24. It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

Rhea Perlman

#25. In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.

Marvin Ammori

#26. When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

Rhea Perlman

#27. You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

Kirko Bangz

#28. A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

Jeff Cooper

#30. I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Denis Leary

#31. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.

Rhea Perlman