A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: “Run your own race, put on your blinders.”
JOAN RIVERSI saw what’s going on under my chin. I don’t want to be the one the President has to pardon on Thanksgiving.
More Joan Rivers Quotes
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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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Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it’s happening.
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Don’t worry about the money. Love the process.
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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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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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On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.
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Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you’re funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
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I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
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Grandchildren can be annoying – how many times can you go: “And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink”? It’s like talking to a supermodel.
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We don’t apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don’t get it, then don’t watch us.
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There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I’ve Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.
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When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now…once he opened the car door for me in the last four years – we were on the freeway at the time.
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I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
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Life goes by fast. Enjoy it…Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
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Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.
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