Carl Reiner Quotes
In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.
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Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.
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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
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In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
