Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"


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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role,...
FRAN KRANZ
It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ...
FRAN KRANZ
When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly maki...
FRAN KRANZ
That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ
Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really pu...
FRAN KRANZ
I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
FRAN KRANZ
I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but &...
FRAN KRANZ
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
FRAN DRESCHER
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
FRAN DRESCHER
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
FRAN DRESCHER
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock co...
FRAN DRESCHER
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 all...
FRAN DRESCHER
Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
FRAN DRESCHER
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
FRAN DRESCHER
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
FRAN DRESCHER
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point ...
FRAN DRESCHER
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
FRAN DRESCHER
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I coul...
FRAN DRESCHER
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events...
FRAN DRESCHER
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really he...
FRAN DRESCHER
I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
FRAN DRESCHER
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
FRAN DRESCHER
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
FRAN DRESCHER
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
FRAN DRESCHER
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
FRAN DRESCHER
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
FRAN DRESCHER
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
FRAN DRESCHER
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
FRAN DRESCHER
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reac...
FRAN TARKENTON
None of us really pushes hard enough.
FRAN TARKENTON
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
FRAN TARKENTON
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
FRAN TARKENTON
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completel...
FRAN KRANZ
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y...
FRAN DRESCHER
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the '...
FRAN TARKENTON