Quotes by Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it’s also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

New York

Rain

War

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the legs that go first; it’s remembering the word for legs.

Belief

Firsts

Legs

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It’s the sheer quantity. It’s the Niagara of opinion, of information. It’s not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

Compassion

Information

Opinion

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.

Mean

Stars

Thinking

I know one thing – very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

California

Southern

Writing

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it’s got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it’s capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don’t know how to do it at all.

Play

Two

Writing

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.

Art

College

People

I refuse to do anything easy. I’m writing for the smartest person out there. I’m not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I’m writing to say you’re not alone. I’m not alone. We’re not alone.

Easy

Refuse

Writing

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can’t just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

People

Thinking

Wind

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It’s counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

Mean

Technology

Thinking

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Age

Alive

Amazon

Art

Audience

Belief

Bitter Truth

Bitterness

Born

Burning

California

Causes

Chiefs

College

Compassion

Differences

Divorce

Doe

Easy

Equal

Example

Exercise

Firsts

Funny

Hollywood

Home

Honest

Humor

Imagination

Information

Inspirational

Laughter

Legs

Make Happy

May

Mean

Musical

Nature

New York

Numbers

Opinion

Optimist

People

Play

Rain

Real

Recovering

Refuse

Ridiculous

Science

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Quotes by Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the legs that go first; it’s remembering the word for legs.

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It’s the sheer quantity. It’s the Niagara of opinion, of information. It’s not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

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.

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.

I refuse to do anything easy. I’m writing for the smartest person out there. I’m not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I’m writing to say you’re not alone. I’m not alone. We’re not alone.

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can’t just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It’s counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

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