Quotes from Carl Reiner

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.

When I was 20-something, 30, I fell down a flight of stairs and hurt my back. I went to a therapist who said don't get out of bed until you do certain stretches, and I've been doing them ever since. I guess I'm the original yogi.

My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.

The key to longevity is to interact with other people.

Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well, what do you know that we don't?' That's what Trump does all the time.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I love tweeting.

It's one thing for a father to say, 'Oh, my son is great.' But to have others say it - that's the true reward. Robbie's one of the smartest people I know. He's made such fantastic movies.

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

When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable all the time; in fact, if you're very miserable, you giggle a lot at the oddest things." --Carl Reiner in "The Trib

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.

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

Wielu ludzi lubi ?nieg. Dla mnie jest zb?dnym zamra?aniem wody.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

An attitude will give you heft.

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

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

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