Penny Marshall Quotes

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.

I'm not a hockey fan. I'm not a golf fan.

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

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

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

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

I don't startle easily.

It's hard to imagine a time when Saturday nights didn't include the phrase "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night." Saturday Night Live is such an institution that you can forget or may not know that tuning in at 11:30 p.m. was once an adventure into the unknown, a true television event.

I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.

Next to sex my favorite thing is laughing - it's part of sex. Make me laugh - I'll love you.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

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

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

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

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!

My family is well, and that's what's important.

I have a good support system of friends and family.

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.

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

Almost everyone had a theory about why Laverne & Shirley took off. I thought it was simply because Laverne and Shirley were poor and there were no poor people on TV, but there were plenty of them sitting at home and watching TV.

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.

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

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.

Marky! Pull up your pants!

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

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.