Funny Girl Quotes

Nick I'd be happy to wait while you change.

Fanny I'd have to change too much, nobody could wait that long.

Fanny I would have ordered roast beef and potatoes.

Nick I did.

Fanny If I can't tell when you're ordering roast beef and potatoes, how will I know when you're making advances?

Nick You'll know. I'll be much more direct.

Fanny Brice * Don't Rain on My Parade

Fanny Brice No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked.

Fanny You could get lonesome being that free.

Nick You could get lonesome being that busy.

Fanny Now who'd think to look at us that we got the same problem!

Fanny Flo! Flo, quit yelling or your ulcer will flare up.

Florenz That's funny coming from you, you gave me that ulcer!

Fanny He's a gentleman. A gentleman fits in anyplace.

Rose A sponge fits in any place.

Fanny Brice Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.

Rose When you look at him, you only see what you want to see.

Fanny I see him as he is. I love him as he is!

Rose Fanny. Love him a little less. Help him a little more.

Fanny Brice Don't tell me not to fly, I simply gottaIf someone takes a spill It's me and not youDon't bring a cloud to rain on my parade.

Fanny Brice * Note: ranked #81 in the ] in American cinema.

Fanny Brice Suppose all ya ever had for breakfast was onion rolls. Then one day, in walks a (gasp)bagel! You'd say, Ugh, what's that? Until you tried it! That's my problem. I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. Nobody recognizes me! Listen, I got 36 expressions. Sweet as pie and as tough as leather. And that's six expressions more than all them...Barrymores put together. Instead of just kicking me, why don't they give me a lift? Well, it must be a plot, cause they're scared that I got such a gift!...

Fanny Brice Hello, gorgeous.

Fanny Where I come from, when two people... well, sort of love each other... oh, never mind.

Nick Well? What do they do when they "sort of love each other"?

Fanny Well, one of them says, "Why don't we get married?

Nick Really?

Fanny Yeah, and sometimes it's even the man.