And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for television and movies.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
However, since the anthrax scare, the studio has prohibited all fan mail and I no longer receive it for the time being.
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.
I definitely have a Queens identity, and that's what I'm preserving in this show.
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.
I did do acupuncture, which helped me a lot to reduce the internal inflammation.
I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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 have no idea why this decision was made, and I have much regret that the audience that supported us all these years will be shortchanged.
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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.
I made an audio tape of my book, which I think is really excellent, although it's an abridged version of the book.
I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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.
I was always loving, involved with charities and family, and I had a rich life before. Now, I have a purpose. I got sick maybe for this reason.
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
I'm very committed to changing legislation to broaden the scope of women's health care but, at the same time, I want to live my life to the fullest.
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
It took me a long time to recover, so my close friends and my family stayed with me. I was in a place in my life were I was really ready to reach out.
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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.
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
We had to do a radical hysterectomy.
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
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.
You know, I felt very vulnerable.
She was nominated for a Razzie award in 1998 for her role in the movie Beautician and the Beast.
During her first years as a professional actor, she often phased out her trademark nasal accent in order to get roles. Ironically, she got more roles with the accent than without it.
She is often believed to be from Italian descent, something she has denied.
She has been nominated for an Outstanding Lead Actress In a Comedy Series Emmy twice, in 1996 and 1997 for The Nanny.
She was told by one of her first agents that she would never succeed in the acting business unless she lost her trademark accent.
She had a dog called Chester Drescher who died age 19 in 2001. She currently owns a Pomeranian named Esther Drescher.
She had a cameo role in the cult comedy film This Is Spinal Tap.
She is good friends with legendary supermodel Twiggy.
She was reunited with Charles Shaugnessy, her co-star on The Nanny, on her sitcom Living with Fran in 2006.
Fran Drescher: I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
Fran Drescher had a bit part in the disco movie Saturday Night Fever. She danced with John Travolta about midway through the movie. She had a few speaking lines.
Fran was raped at gunpoint on January 5, 1985. Two men broke into her house, tied up her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, and proceeded to rape her and close friend, Judi, who had the misfortune of having joined them for dinner.
(July 2003) Fran had a stint doing a play in New York for a week. It was one of her first dramatic roles. (November 2003) Doing commercials for Old Navy along with 'Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones' . (April 2005) Starring on the new hit TV show on the WB Living with Fran
Fran worte two books: Enter Whining (1996), and Cancer Schmancer (2002). Both books are now out of print.
The show that was Fran Drescher's claim to fame is "The Nanny". Most people will remember her as Fran Fine, the nanny from Flushing, Queens. Except for her name and the place where she grew up, Fran Drescher and Fran "The Nanny" Fine have more things in common: Fran Fine's parents are named Silvia and Morty, the same names as Fran Drescher's real life parents. Coincidence? No! Fran Drescher came up with the idea herself.
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