Explore Quotes by Carl Reiner

If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very similar to everybody else in the world. You love, you hate, you have friends, you have enemies. Be who you are.

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.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

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.

I need to see a woman president in my lifetime. Or the first Jewish president.

The key to longevity is to interact with other people.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

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

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

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

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.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

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.

Comedians are really writers who don't_x000D_ have pens and pencils about them, but_x000D_ they riff.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.