Fannie Flagg Quotes


Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.


Citations

Flagg, Fannie. Interview by Academy of Achievement. Academy of Achievement, 22 June 1996.

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Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg
  • Born: September 21, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actress, Comedian, Author

Fannie Flagg is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation. Flagg lives in California and Alabama.