Latest Fran Lebowitz Quotes from Interviews

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• Because of the Internet everybody sees the same stuff. You can buy the clothes of New York, even if you're not living there. So I think that the accessibility, in this case, drives buying choices more than anything else.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Thinking, Choices, Internet

  Source: www.elle.com

• One of the biggest changes in my lifetime, is the phenomenon of men wearing shorts. Men never wore shorts when I was young. This is one of the worst changes, by far. It's disgusting. To have to sit next to grown men on the subway in the summer, and they're wearing shorts? They look ridiculous, like children, and I can't take them seriously. My fashion advice, particularly to men wearing shorts: Ask yourself, 'Could I make a living modeling these shorts?' If the answer is no, then change your clothes. Put on a pair of pants.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Summer, Fashion, Children

  Source: www.elle.com

• When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fashion, Thinking, Clue

  Source: www.elle.com

• To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Kids, People, Parent

  Source: www.elle.com

• I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Real, Wish

  Source: www.elle.com

• The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wish, Reason, Wanting To Die

  Source: www.elle.com

• People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Style, Care

  Source: www.elle.com

• A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.".

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, War, Winning

  Source: www.elle.com

• Maybe it's superficial to exude a sense of confidence in one's clothes. But it's also integral. We have an appearance. Not all of us are beautiful. But we can appear fine looking. So we should. Feeling good about an outfit is the point at which that outfit finally becomes good.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, Feel Good, Feelings

  Source: www.elle.com

• What's so great thing about clothes is that they're artificial - you can lie, you can choose the way you look, which is not true of natural beauty. So if you're naturally beautiful, wear what you want, but that's 01% of people. Most people just aren't good looking enough to wear what they have on. They should change. They should get some slacks and a nice overcoat. Remember when the style was incredibly messy hair? That's great if you're a model. But if you're not a model, you would look better if you washed your hair, because you are not beautiful.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, Nice, Lying

  Source: www.elle.com

• What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the shirt I liked. If I had only known this - I mean, if you're going to discontinue an item that thousands and thousands of people buy, announce it. Say, 'We will no longer be making our excellent Brooks Brothers cotton shirts that we made for 5,000 years. We're going to change them in some awful way. We're alerting you so you can buy a lifetime supply.' Shirts don't go bad, they're not peaches.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Brother, Mean, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Stabbing, Adore

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Understanding, Tolerance, Human Nature

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Ideas, People, Human Nature

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Hate, People

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Subway, Preference

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Phones, Games, People

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Ideas, Two, Together

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.

  Fran Lebowitz

  America, Wells, Stills

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smart, Dope, Unattractive

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, America, Ideas

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Years, Surprise, Trump

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, President, England

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Faults, Blame, Trump

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.