Top 120 Roseanne Barr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”

— Roseanne Barr

2. “Half the world’s starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.”

— Roseanne Barr

3. “It’s a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don’t know that, google it and look into it. It’s really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It’s levels of brainwashing and mind control.”

— Roseanne Barr

4. “Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”

— Roseanne Barr

5. “Laugh every day as much as you can.”

— Roseanne Barr

6. “Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.”

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7. “Women are cursed, and men are the proof.”

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8. “I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn’t for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with.”

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9. “I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.”

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10. “This bugs me the worst. That’s when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: “Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?” Like he can’t go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.”

— Roseanne Barr

11. “Don’t call people names you dirty name caller you.”

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12. “I’m on the mirror diet. You eat all your food in front of a mirror in the nude. It works pretty good, though some of the fancier restaurants don’t go for it.”

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13. “I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I’ve done my job.”

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14. “Excuse the mess, but we live here.”

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15. “I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!”

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16. “A good man doesn’t just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like a doughnut.”

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17. “Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.”

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18. “I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.”

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19. “I have horrible stage fright – you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you’re not funny at all.”

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20. “I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I’d like to commune with other things – like room service and temperature control.”

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21. “I have more money than God, but not as much as Oprah.”

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22. “Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.”

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23. “There isn’t a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.”

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24. “A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.”

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25. “I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.”

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26. “I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it’s safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.”

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27. “I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.”

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28. “The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just – I don’t think it really can get any better than that, I don’t think.”

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29. “You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you’re married to a couch that burps.”

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30. “My best friend Linda is leaving her husband just because he is unfaithful to her. That is no reason to leave the person. I feel like after that, you should stay with them and make sure that the rest of their life is sheer hell.”

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31. “There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.”

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32. “Whatever helps you sleep is my opinion on the subject, and that’s what I like about the western world’s most popular religion, it has helped put so many people to sleep, although most of them permanently and without their approval.”

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33. “I’m fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say ‘Fine – how was your lobotomy?’”

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34. “You’re only seventeen, you’re too young to have a meatloaf recipe... go get something pierced.”

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35. “Here is my personal opinion about prostitution. If men knew how to do it, they wouldn’t have to pay for it.”

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36. “To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won’t hit you because you are a vegetarian.”

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37. “I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.”

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38. “A lot of men are impotent and it’s very sad. How many of you are impotent? I see. Can’t get your arms up either?”

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39. “I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he’s a babe. He’s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he’s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn’t married I’d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.”

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40. “My husband says, ‘Roseanne, don’t you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?’ Like I’m gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.”

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41. “I call myself a ’domestic goddess.”

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42. “I’m not upset about my divorce. I’m only upset that I’m not a widow.”

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43. “Abortion is a woman’s right.”

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44. “Who’s elk horn do I have to blow in order to get something to eat around here?”

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45. “My children love me. I’m like the mother they never had.”

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46. “I got, like, Diane Keaton’s manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, “Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?””

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47. “If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn’t going to be much fun.”

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48. “Hollywood is the only place on earth that has more vampires, more undead, more resurrections than a month of Easter Sundays.”

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49. “I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.”

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50. “I try to tell people to keep having hope. It’s always what you don’t know and don’t expect that’s gonna be so great.”

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