Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Fran Drescher.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader. She is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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.
I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.
My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives.
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.
Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.
our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.
I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.
... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!
My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
The Super Bowl is really exciting. The parties are always fun. The whole thing is a big party.
Money talks, and bulls*** walks.
I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.
Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.