Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice
Fanny Bricewas an American illustrated song model, comedian, singer, and theater and film actress who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation, for which Streisand won an Oscar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 October 1891
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.
I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company.
Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.
For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.
Wrong is for other people.
I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.
When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.
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, and they only want you to make them laugh.
I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.
I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!