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That's it, baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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Angel of Death ain't kissing me! I'm full of garlic!
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Interviewer:
You've been accused of vulgarity.
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Bullshit!
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Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.
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If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.
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Let's face it, sweetheart, without Jews, fags, and Gypsies, there is no theatre.
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Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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And, of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth—the critic.
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We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
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One day God said, 'Let there be prey,' and he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!
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I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?
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How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?
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Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.
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Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
Deutschland is happy and gay.
We're moving to a faster pace,
Look out, here comes the Master Race!
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I was adored. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground.
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Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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June 28, 1926
(age 97)
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