Top 25 Penny Marshall Quotes

The truth is that I am not a frump… I just enjoy being laid back.

I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

I don’t startle easily.

I’ll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?

It’s better for me to go up against someone’s passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That’s why they go into acting!

When I’m working, I’m obsessively working.

You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn’t mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I’ll adapt to it.

I’m very happy to watch a video at home with a friend rather than do dinner.

Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say ‘no,’ I mean ‘no.’ I just have to learn how to say ‘no’ more.

I’m not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I like arts and crafts.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don’t pay you that much. I’d rather do TV or an HBO movie.

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.

I’m not the most positive person.

I wasn’t like a girly girl. I was a tomboy.

I’ve directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

I have a good support system of friends and family.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.