Brother Theodore Quotes

Germany, Actor
November 11, 1906 – April, 5, 2001.

Brother Theodore was a German-born American actor and comedian known for rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologues which he called "stand-up tragedy". He was a man described as "Boris Karloff, surrealist Salvador Dalí, Nijinsky and Red Skelton…simultaneously".

Also known as Comedian

It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

Brother Theodore
- World
- Right
- Wrong
My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.

Brother Theodore
- Family
- Name
- Vegetarians

The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

Brother Theodore
- Hope
- Thing
- Dying young
The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.

Brother Theodore
Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope...

Brother Theodore
- Hope
- Death
- Lost forever