The best Quotes by Carl Reiner

The best Quotes by Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned seven decades.

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

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Laughing & Smile

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

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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.

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

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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.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

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Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

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Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

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Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

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New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

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In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

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We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor in Superman

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

Silk Spectre in Watchmen -

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Justice California

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles California

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

Ozzy Osbourne

Laughing & Smile

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

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Laughing & Smile

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Will Rogers

Politicians Comedians

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf

Think of something nice... think of me!

Louis de Funès - The Wing and the Thigh

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

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What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

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Self-Confidence

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

Emilia Clarke

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

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Thinking Feelings & Emotions

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

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Crying & Tears Rain

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jackie Chan

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

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Failures & Mistakes

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

Klaus Kinski

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

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The Kardashians

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Keanu Reeves

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Relationships Falling in love

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

Samuel L. Jackson

Wealth & Richness

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

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Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

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