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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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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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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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
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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.
