Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner is an American actor, director, producer, and writer of comedy whose career spans nearly seven decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 March 1922
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
people bother you-choose
I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with.
fighting gun two
When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
writing people mets
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
thinking skills way
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.
people world sids
Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.
writing humor improvisation
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
couple war humorous
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.
writing found shocked
When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.
attitude giving
An attitude will give you heft.
asking-questions people answers
I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
relationship love-is joy
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
giving stories tasks
Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
hurt atheist men
I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
writing ideas creating
Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.