Quotes by Roseanne Barr

About Roseanne Barr:

Roseanne Cherrie Barr is 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 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 domestic goddess" persona in the eight years preceding her sitcom and wanted to do a realistic show about a strong mother who was not a victim of patriarchal consumerism.
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I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.

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I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

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I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

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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. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Se...

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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

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Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

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I was completely nuts for most of my life.

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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

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I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

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My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

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Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

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One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

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'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

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Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.

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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

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You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and p...

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I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.

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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

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I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

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Author Bio

  • NameRoseanne Barr
  • Descriptionactress, comedienne, writer, producer, director
  • BornNovember 3, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Writer; Blogger