Quotes by Neil Simon

Neil Simon

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you’re clearing a path and getting to the right place.

Knives

Play

Writing

A lot of your personality is formed before you’re 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

Character

Personality

Play

All humor is based on hostility – that’s why World War Two was funny.

Funny

Humor

War

Baptists are only funny underwater.

Baptists

Underwater

Don’t listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Bigs

Chance

Today

Evan Handler’s new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

Book

Close Friends

Wonderful

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art

Thinking

Writing

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we’ll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Funny

Party

Sarcastic

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Chance

Giving

Mind

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn’t impress me at all.

Beautiful

Intelligent

Sexy

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Attitude

Awards

Baptists

Baseball

Beautiful

Believe

Bigs

Body

Book

Born

Candidates

Chance

Character

Children

Close Friends

Comedian

Compromise

Couple

Dancing

Dark

Dating

Drinking

Eccentricity

Effort

Ego

Eight

Enjoy Life

Eye

Firsts

Fog

Fun

Funny

Funny Life

Gambling

Giving

Graduation

Hands

Happiness

Home

House

Humor

Humorous

Ifs

Inspirational

Intelligent

Interesting

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Quotes by Neil Simon

Neil Simon

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you’re clearing a path and getting to the right place.

A lot of your personality is formed before you’re 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

All humor is based on hostility – that’s why World War Two was funny.

Baptists are only funny underwater.

Don’t listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Evan Handler’s new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we’ll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn’t impress me at all.

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