Carl Reiner Quotes

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

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.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.