Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Cherrie Barris an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs before gaining fame for her role in the classic sitcom Roseanne. The show was a hit and lasted nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997. She won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the show. Barr had crafted a "fierce working-class...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth3 November 1952
CountryUnited States of America
I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.
I have more money than God, but not as much as Oprah.
I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit.
There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.
Without democracy in our homes, we will never have it in the world.
Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature...
Diets are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.
I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.