Fanny Brice Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

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.

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?

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Wrong is for other people.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

The individual citizen must again be conscious of his responsibility to his government and alert to the preservation of his rights as a citizen under it. That cannot be done by taking government further away, but by keeping it at home.

Trivia

Dropped out of school after the 8th grade.

Believed that pearls shouldn't be taken off and needed to be lived in and so she would sleep in hers at night.