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

- 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 casuall…

- Carl Reiner

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.

- 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 wi…

- Carl Reiner

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

- Carl Reiner

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

- Carl Reiner

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do kno…

- Carl Reiner

An attitude will give you heft.

- Carl Reiner

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

- Carl Reiner