Neil Simon
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simonis an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth4 July 1927
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
writing knives play
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.
gambling risk sure-thing
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
funny war humor
All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.
baseball fun writing
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.
long enjoy-life waiting
How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.
typewriters dancing laughing
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.
writing thinking obligation
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.
drinking different looks
It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.
sports time matter
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
more-money certain
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
school people degrees
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
money zero two
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
work weekend two
I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
humorous nervous belts
He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.