Top 40 Fran Drescher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.”

— Fran Drescher

2. “Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.”

— Fran Drescher

3. “Without music the world will still turn, but it won’t rock.”

— Fran Drescher

4. “My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives.”

— Fran Drescher

5. “Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.”

— Fran Drescher

6. “Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That’s why they call it “growing pains.” It’s all about yin and yang. And that’s not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.”

— Fran Drescher

7. “I’ve lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.”

— Fran Drescher

8. “I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.”

— Fran Drescher

9. “If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path.”

— Fran Drescher

10. “Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn’t understand the meaning of the word.”

— Fran Drescher

11. “My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.”

— Fran Drescher

12. “Since my illness, I’ve felt the presence of my angels.”

— Fran Drescher

13. “Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger.”

— Fran Drescher

14. “It’s a blessing when the person you love shows the kind of instincts you’d hoped they’d have when push comes to shove. Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick. And if you’re blessed, those around you will rise to the occasion in your hour of need.”

— Fran Drescher

15. “My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.”

— Fran Drescher

16. “I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.”

— Fran Drescher

17. “Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.”

— Fran Drescher

18. “We call each other the Hin-Jews because he’s Tamilian, and the Tamils of Southern India came from Ethiopia just as the Hebrews from Palestine came from Ethiopia. The DNA is the same.”

— Fran Drescher

19. “I’ve gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.”

— Fran Drescher

20. “I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.”

— Fran Drescher

21. “I’ve lived three lifetimes in my short time.”

— Fran Drescher

22. “You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.”

— Fran Drescher

23. “Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.”

— Fran Drescher

24. “I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.”

— Fran Drescher

25. “I started as a teenager going up on commercials.”

— Fran Drescher

26. “I like writing better. Because I don’t have to wear makeup, I don’t have to be thin, and I don’t have to remember lines.”

— Fran Drescher

27. “I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.”

— Fran Drescher

28. “I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.”

— Fran Drescher

29. “People lived in the same apartments for years. You’d meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you’d still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.”

— Fran Drescher

30. “If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.”

— Fran Drescher

31. “Though I’m not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.”

— Fran Drescher

32. “Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.”

— Fran Drescher

33. “Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.”

— Fran Drescher

34. “It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.”

— Fran Drescher

35. “I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I’ll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.”

— Fran Drescher

36. “The Super Bowl is really exciting. The parties are always fun. The whole thing is a big party.”

— Fran Drescher

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37. “I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.”

— Fran Drescher

38. “I don’t go to places where I’m going to get mobbed.”

— Fran Drescher

39. “I’m very involved in the writing on every level.”

— Fran Drescher

40. “Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.”

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41. “I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.”

— Fran Drescher