Roseanne
Roseanne
Roseanne is an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988, to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working-class family. The series reached #1 in the Nielsen ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for eight seasons, TV Guide rated "Roseanne" as one of...
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 November 1952
CitySalt Lake City, UT
marriage fun hate
Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never get out of the house. I stay home all the time. I never do anything fun 'cause I'm a housewife. I hate the word "housewife." I prefer to be called "domestic goddess.
meditation calm kind
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.
work real pouring
I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.
sick love-and-marriage
We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.
parent towns blame
my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.
writing television easier
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.
stress childhood resilience
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
success winning white
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
dream men years
You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.
common utopia envisioning
I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.
get-away true-things paid
Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.
taboo
I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.
dad people age
My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.
dating notes etiquette
Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.