Fran Drescher's BIO Her role as Fran Fine on the CBS sitcom The Nanny
September 30, 1957 (Flushing, New York, USA)
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  • “I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.”
  • “Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.”
  • “I'm very involved in the writing on every level.”
  • “I have no idea why this decision was made, and I have much regret that the audience that supported us all these years will be shortchanged.”
  • “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.”
  • “But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for television and movies.”
  • “Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.”
  • “I made an audio tape of my book, which I think is really excellent, although it's an abridged version of the book.”
  • “Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.”
  • “We had to do a radical hysterectomy.”
  • “You know, I felt very vulnerable.”
  • “I have a hang-up thinking I have to be everyone?s caretaker and no-one can deal except me.”
  • “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.”
  • “Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.”
  • “I did do acupuncture, which helped me a lot to reduce the internal inflammation.”
  • “I had to do something with this voice. And don't expect that to change!”
  • “I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.”
  • “I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.”
  • “I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.”
  • “Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.”
  • “Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.”
  • “The thing about Fran Fine is she'll always be the flashy girl from Flushing.”
  • “I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.”
  • “I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.”
  • “If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.”
  • “There's so much we're not getting as part of our regular health care.”
  • “It took me a long time to recover, so my close friends and my family stayed with me. I was in a place in my life were I was really ready to reach out.”
  • “I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virgin from Queens. Whatever, the only virgin in my house is the olive oil.”
  • “I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.”
  • “I had stage one uterine cancer, and after my surgery it was considered 95 per cent non-recurring.”
  • “However, since the anthrax scare, the studio has prohibited all fan mail and I no longer receive it for the time being.”
  • “I started as a teenager going up on commercials.”
  • “My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.”
  • “Romano Wasn't Cool At School”
  • “And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.”
  • “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.”
  • “It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.”
  • “I was always loving, involved with charities and family, and I had a rich life before. Now, I have a purpose. I got sick maybe for this reason.”
  • “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.”
  • “I definitely have a Queens identity, and that's what I'm preserving in this show.”
  • “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.”
  • “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.”
  • “I'm very committed to changing legislation to broaden the scope of women's health care but, at the same time, I want to live my life to the fullest.”
  • “Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.”
  • “I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.”
  • “Ray was not even cool back in those days. He wasn't popular, he wasn't cool. It's so funny, and now he's like so popular and everything”
  • “The accent is mine!”
  • “I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.”
  • “I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.”
  • “Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.”