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Joan Rivers
American
Comedian
Born:
Jun 8
,
1933
Died:
Sep 4
,
2014
Funny
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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Groucho Marx
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Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
Joan Rivers
Needs
Queen
Dress
Another
Boy
George
England
Who
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
Joan Rivers
Group
Out
Total
Come
Audiences
Unhappiness
Therapy
Routines
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
Joan Rivers
History
You
Nice
Too
Make
Read
Yeah
I just love acting.
Joan Rivers
Love
Just
Acting
The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.
Joan Rivers
Me
Stage
Ran
Worst
Worst Thing
Tell
Horrible
Someone
Over
Happened
Loved
Forward
Ever
Thing
I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.
Joan Rivers
Good
Beginning
Think
Tried
Look
Tina
Tina Fey
Fey
In The Beginning
Now
Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.
Joan Rivers
Me
Could
Take
Put
Up
Against
Sarah
Her
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
Joan Rivers
Funny
You
Old
Will
Accept
Because
Still
Years
Lucky
All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.
Joan Rivers
Black
All My Friends
Wear
Always
Friends
Dying
Why
I am furious about everything.
Joan Rivers
Furious
Everything
About
Am
I am a huge 'Downton Abbey' fan - huge!
Joan Rivers
Abbey
Am
Huge
Fan
Downton Abbey
I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.
Joan Rivers
You
People
Matter
Signs
Own
Tell
Signing
Boss
My Own
Checks
Learned
Partners
Doing
Your
Paycheck
Show
Whoever
Fox
Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
Joan Rivers
Funny
You
Learning
Comedy
Young
Small
Learn
Audiences
Rooms
Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.
Joan Rivers
Job
Every
Everyone
Unless
Say
Williams
About
No Question
Weeks
He
Comedians
Make
Robin
Robin Williams
Fresh
Sound
Doing
Line
Question
Forgets
Same
Cannot
Acting
Actor
Every Night
Night
Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.
Joan Rivers
Work
Face
Babies
Lying
Way
Says
Count
Attractive
Looks
Course
Go
Anyone
Even
Humans
I love the Internet, and I love that you can say whatever you want.
Joan Rivers
Love
You
Internet
Whatever
Say
Want
My audiences get younger all the time.
Joan Rivers
Time
Audiences
Get
Younger
I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.
Joan Rivers
World
Think
Kindle
Hated
Minute
Got
Person
Get
Third
Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.
Joan Rivers
You
Jokes
Hilarious
Relevant
Find
Them
Fat
I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.'
Joan Rivers
Thought
Clothes
Think
Say
Says
Exactly
Exactly What
Totally
Never
Emperor
Always
Very
Get
Often
Politically
Politically Incorrect
Who
Incorrect
You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.
Joan Rivers
You
People
Somewhere
About
Someone
Stuck
Driver
Hear
Brain
Gets
Lady
Fan
Wardrobe
Mean
Certain
Your
Rotten
Things
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.
Joan Rivers
Saying
Good
Thought
Joke
Every
He
Like
Look
Comic
Making
Years
Very
Same
Any
Just
Good Actor
Actor
Every Night
Night
I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.
Joan Rivers
Girl
Out
New
Come
York
New York
Theater
When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.
Joan Rivers
Fashion
Me
Police
Care
Critic
About
Only
Am
Loses
Friends
Being
Many
I will work as hard as I do because I love it.
Joan Rivers
Work
Love
Will
Because
Hard
My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.
Joan Rivers
Am
Actress
Playing
Career
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