Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers

"I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny."
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"I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny."
Joan Rivers
"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property."
Joan Rivers
"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."
Joan Rivers
"I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he'd do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl."
Joan Rivers
"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."
Joan Rivers
"I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business."
Joan Rivers
"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be."
Joan Rivers
"Never floss with a stranger."
Joan Rivers
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
Joan Rivers
"Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube."
Joan Rivers
"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."
Joan Rivers
"Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things."
Joan Rivers
"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."
Joan Rivers
"Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with friends, so I do have some nights off."
Joan Rivers
"My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays."
Joan Rivers
"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you."
Joan Rivers
"If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor."
Joan Rivers
"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."
Joan Rivers
"Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too."
Joan Rivers
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."
Joan Rivers
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