Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
-
I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
-
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
-
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
-
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
-
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
-
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
-
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
-
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
-
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
-
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
-
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
-
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
-
If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
-
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
-
When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
-
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
-
Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
-
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
-
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
-
When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that's not up to me.
-
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
-
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
