Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Fanny Brice

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Fanny Brice.
Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Fanny Brice

Fania Borach, known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedienne, illustrated song model, singer, and theater and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances. She is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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?
Wrong is for other people. — © Fanny Brice
Wrong is for other people.
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.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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.
Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.
I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!
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!
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.
Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.
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, and they only want you to make them laugh.
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.
Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.
Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful. — © Fanny Brice
Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.
For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company.
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