Writing Quotes by Roseanne Barr

9 Writing quotes by Roseanne Barr

Roseanne Barr offers nine short thoughts that mix humor with unapologetic honesty. She talks about grit, self‑acceptance, and the messy reality of the creative process. A compact, real‑talk guide for writers who appreciate blunt truth.

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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could…

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I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to…

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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I…

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I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody…

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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to…

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Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I…

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I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody…

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You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

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There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.

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I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

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Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why…

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My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I…

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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what…

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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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“I consider myself to be apretty good judge of people...That's why I don't like any of them.”

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Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a…

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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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Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been…

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Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their guilty leaders…

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Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately to realize…

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You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

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