Larry Gelbart Quotes
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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A lot of people credit him with being terribly influential in their careers.
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
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I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
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I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.
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If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.
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Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
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The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
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Your style is formed by what you can't do.
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Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
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I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
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Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.
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We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
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You could say the network was beating up on you, and he acted as a very benign and positive kind of chief justice.
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I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.
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I'm a recovering optimist.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
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Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
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I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.
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In a world that operates at least 50 percent on fear, he was very confident.
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I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.