Carl Reiner Quotes
Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.
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I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.
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Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
