It's sad that on the day we remember Martin Luther King Jr., that a small minority of people believe...
FRAN DUNAWAY Thirty years is a long time to wait for equality. With the passage of this historic legislation, Was...
FRAN DUNAWAY God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movi...
FAYE DUNAWAY I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a...
FAYE DUNAWAY So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
FAYE DUNAWAY I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules an...
FAYE DUNAWAY I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I real...
FAYE DUNAWAY I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
FAYE DUNAWAY It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
FAYE DUNAWAY It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think a...
FAYE DUNAWAY So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
FAYE DUNAWAY When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
FAYE DUNAWAY I'm kind of a recluse.
FAYE DUNAWAY You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
FAYE DUNAWAY I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel ...
FAYE DUNAWAY My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer'...
FAYE DUNAWAY Years are not important, my dear.
FAYE DUNAWAY Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotion...
FAYE DUNAWAY You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'...
FAYE DUNAWAY Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies...
FAYE DUNAWAY Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
FAYE DUNAWAY I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she...
FAYE DUNAWAY He became one of the greatest artists that will ever be. Ever, ever.
FAYE DUNAWAY You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm gl...
FAYE DUNAWAY The whole era when I was busy being a big movie star was terribly disconcerting. I was cared for and...
FAYE DUNAWAY It's hard to pick out. We have just a real solid group of juniors and seniors.
DANNY DUNAWAY We didn't hit the ball very good. We played good defense, we just didn't hit the ball. We're going t...
DANNY DUNAWAY I called her because I wanted it to be modeled a little bit after her because she's such a charismat...
FAYE DUNAWAY Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
FRAN In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
FRAN TARKENTON Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
FRAN DRESCHER Television isn't my career. Business is.
FRAN TARKENTON What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thi...
FRAN TARKENTON You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it&...
FRAN TARKENTON Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team b...
FRAN TARKENTON In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
FRAN TARKENTON The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American busin...
FRAN TARKENTON That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ...
FRAN TARKENTON The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn'...
FRAN TARKENTON You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can y...
FRAN TARKENTON Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
FRAN TARKENTON Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
FRAN TARKENTON I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts realit...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
FRAN LEBOWITZ You're only as good as your last haircut.
FRAN LEBOWITZ There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and w...
FRAN KRANZ As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be ...
FRAN KRANZ I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the wo...
FRAN KRANZ I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role,...
FRAN KRANZ It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ...
FRAN KRANZ When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly maki...
FRAN KRANZ That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really pu...
FRAN KRANZ I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
FRAN KRANZ I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but &...
FRAN KRANZ Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
FRAN DRESCHER I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
FRAN DRESCHER Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
FRAN DRESCHER I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock co...
FRAN DRESCHER Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
FRAN DRESCHER I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my all...
FRAN DRESCHER Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
FRAN DRESCHER I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
FRAN DRESCHER My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
FRAN DRESCHER I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point ...
FRAN DRESCHER It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
FRAN DRESCHER I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I coul...
FRAN DRESCHER Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events...
FRAN DRESCHER You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really he...
FRAN DRESCHER I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
FRAN DRESCHER I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
FRAN DRESCHER Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
FRAN DRESCHER If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
FRAN DRESCHER I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
FRAN DRESCHER Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
FRAN DRESCHER I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
FRAN DRESCHER If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
FRAN DRESCHER And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reac...
FRAN TARKENTON Think before you speak. Read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the id...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ None of us really pushes hard enough.
FRAN TARKENTON The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.
FRAN LEBOWITZ In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ha...
FRAN LEBOWITZ People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
FRAN TARKENTON The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
FRAN LEBOWITZ All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
FRAN TARKENTON The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
FRAN LEBOWITZ The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not a...
FRAN LEBOWITZ No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hol...
FRAN LEBOWITZ You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope fo...
FRAN LEBOWITZ I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary i...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you're going to America, bring your own food.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
FRAN LEBOWITZ There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove othe...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sand...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Only the little people pay taxes.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can ho...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merel...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jock...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear th...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
FRAN LEBOWITZ Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to ch...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointme...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completel...
FRAN KRANZ I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonde...
FRAN LEBOWITZ My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airpo...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic natur...
FRAN LEBOWITZ As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone i...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enou...
FRAN LEBOWITZ In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simp...
FRAN LEBOWITZ People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y...
FRAN DRESCHER Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are ne...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the '...
FRAN TARKENTON Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk joc...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
FRAN LEBOWITZ polite conversation is rarely either
FRAN LEBOWITZ Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
FRAN LEBOWITZ This is the good news we have been waiting for!
FRAN ALLEN The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer ...
FRAN ALLEN It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.
FRAN ALLEN So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremen...
FRAN ALLEN It's a question of how you divide the forage pie. It always has been and always will be. There are s...
FRAN ACKLEY It's on the horizon. We can do the job as long as the funding stays consistent.
FRAN ACKLEY I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove yearly ...
FRAN ACKLEY We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.
FRAN ACKLEY If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a go...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Favorite animal: steak.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and read...
FRAN LEBOWITZ No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hol...
FRAN LEBOWITZ My favorite animal is steak.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the co...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, t...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage o...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear th...
FRAN LEBOWITZ This is a huge relief. A huge relief. I've got a big grin on my face, and I have to keep pinching my...
FRAN BAGENAL Dick Cheney is a very good leader, and I have a whole lot of respect for him.
FRAN DUNPHY Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be...
FRAN DUNPHY You're only has good as your last haircut.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Yes he did, Scooter -- just look in the Pitcher of Venice and you'll see that exact quote.
FRAN HEALY His impact on me has been great. He's been a great friend and someone I have counted on for counsel ...
FRAN DUNPHY It's been tough out there getting to the net with the hooking and the holding and the slashes that g...
FRAN GOW Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel
FRAN LEBOWITZ Don’t allow your ego to ruin your life. The spirit does not operate in ego!
FRAN LEIGH This could be the end of unwanted pop-up ads.
FRAN MAIER Polite conversation is rarely either.
FRAN LEBOWITZ But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for televis...
FRAN DRESCHER Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house
FRAN LEBOWITZ The area is a good area. It's going to boom someday.
FRAN DAVIS I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.
FRAN COHEN Restraint is very important when one graduates,
FRAN KATZANEK Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I did do acupuncture, which helped me a lot to reduce the internal inflammation.
FRAN DRESCHER Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
FRAN DRESCHER Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
FRAN DRESCHER Ginger is delicate and fragile, and Ginger is looking for her partner. So it fit.
FRAN WALLIS