Carl Reiner Quotes
She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.
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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
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I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'
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I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.
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She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.
