Carl Reiner Quotes (18 Quotes)

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.

One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor You guys are so serious.

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

She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.

There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.

The first line in his book is this My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six. ... You're entitled to be a lot crazier than you are.

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

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

I'm signing the letter that says, let's be quiet when he gets his award and just sit there. I think it's very sad that this man is being honored and the people he destroyed are never going to have a chance to be honored.

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.

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.

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'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids

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.