Carl Reiner Quotes

"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." ~ Carl Reiner

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

 "The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh." ~ Carl Reiner

 "Lust is easy.  Love is hard.  Life is most important." ~ Carl Reiner

 "Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh." ~ Carl Reiner

 "Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story." ~ Carl Reiner

 "I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us." ~ Carl Reiner

 "Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience." ~ Carl Reiner

 "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important." ~ Carl Reiner

 "I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do." ~ 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." ~ Carl Reiner

 "I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with." ~ Carl Reiner

 "When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write." ~ Carl Reiner

 "I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer." ~ Carl Reiner

 "I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary." ~ Carl Reiner

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

 "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." ~ Carl Reiner

 "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." ~ Carl Reiner