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
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.
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.
attitude giving
An attitude will give you heft.
writing found shocked
When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.
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.
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.
comedian pencils pens
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
kids thinking people
People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.
father work-ethic house
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.
laughing people want
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
laughing people may
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.
fighting coward charming
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
names games laughing
If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.