Fran Drescher wears many hats and is equally successful in all of them. Many remember her from early roles as a comedy actress for various films, but she is most loved for her role in ‘The Nanny’. Both a writer and actress, Fran’s stardom was sealed with this show. She also went on to star in other hit series and plays on Broadway. With her newfound fame, Fran became a vocal activist about several social issues and spoke at various forums about them. When she discovered that she suffered from cancer, she wrote a book intending to educate others about this disease. An unstoppable force of nature, Drescher continues to take the limelight for all the right reasons. We have assembled her sayings from her book, interviews, articles, and public interaction. Here are some of her witty exclamations and opinions on empowerment, shopping, life, cancer, struggle, and writing.
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
Fran Drescher
I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
Fran Drescher
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
Fran Drescher
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
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I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
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Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.
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Our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.
Fran Drescher
Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
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... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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The Super Bowl is really exciting. The parties are always fun. The whole thing is a big party.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.
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My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives.
Fran Drescher
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
Fran Drescher
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
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Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.
Fran Drescher
Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.
Fran Drescher
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Fran Drescher
My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.
Fran Drescher
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
Fran Drescher
I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
Fran Drescher
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
