My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, “Why can’t you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can’t you be like your cousin Shelia?” Shelia had died at birth.
JOAN RIVERSI said to my husband, ‘Why don’t you call out my name when we’re making love?’ He said, ‘I don’t want to wake you up.’
More Joan Rivers Quotes
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If you can’t make fun of yourself, you don’t have any right to make fun of others.
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Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.’.
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Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.
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Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
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We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
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On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.
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The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you’re acting; listen only to yourself.
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The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate.’ For me that would be a shroud.
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Here’s a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.
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I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, “Marry him, you’ll double your wardrobe.”
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Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you’re okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.
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I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
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Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn’t remember the lines.
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Old age is always ten years more than we are.
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