Quotes from Larry Gelbart

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

One does not have humor. It has you.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

One does not have humor. It has you.

Hawkeye: I brought a book over. Roberts: What book? Hawkeye: The dictionary. I figure it's got all the other books in it.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.