Carl Reiner Quotes
One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
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I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
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One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.
