A Quote by Laurie Metcalf

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

Laurie Metcalf

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Laurie Metcalf
American - Actress
Born: June 16, 1955

Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.

Bret Stephens

Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr—who was molested as a child. Uch. That poor molester. Roseanne never got over it. She felt violated. She had trust issues. She never got the candy he promised her.

Jeff Ross

This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

Roseanne Barr

Oh, yeah! Playing 'Young Jackie' came at the insistence of Roseanne herself. Mom obliged but told me that would not be an option again until I was 18. Truthfully, I grew up not thinking I would act.

Zoe Perry

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.

Gilda Radner

Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright.

Sarah Chalke

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

Roseanne Barr

My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was 'Family Ties' and 'Roseanne' and 'Growing Pains' and 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Golden Girls.' I mean, I watched everything.

Simon Helberg

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

Sara Gilbert

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

Roseanne Barr

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.

Margot Livesey

Everything else was snarky and high concept, while 'Roseanne' was just a normal family.

Jonathan Krisel

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

Johnny Carson

When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.