Fanny Brice quotes

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? (Fanny Brice)
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice
I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
Fanny Brice
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
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.
Fanny Brice
Wrong is for other people.
Fanny Brice
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.
Fanny Brice
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Fanny Brice
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. You step out on the stage and you can feel it is a nervous audience. So you calm them down. 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'm still. I don't move. I wait for the introduction. Maybe I cough. Maybe I touch myself. But before I do anything, 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.
Fanny Brice