Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career.
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“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
Carl Reiner
“The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh”
“It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.”
“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.”
“Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.”
“Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... People need to laugh.”
“I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.”
“She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.”
“Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.”
“There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,”