85 Quotes by Carl Reiner

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

I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I’m doing. I’ve posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It’s a very good way to communicate with people, but I can’t go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.

I’m an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

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 know when you’re failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don’t hear anybody laughing, you know that you’ve failed.

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

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.

Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast.

The key to longevity is to interact with other people.

I served in World War II in our fight to defeat fascism.