Penny Marshall's Quotes

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

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

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.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

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

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

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

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

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 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'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.

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.

Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.

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 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 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!

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

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

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.

I don't startle easily.

I have a good support system of friends and family.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.

I like arts and crafts.

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

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.