26 Quotes by Charles Grodin

Tom doesn’t have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they’re inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn’t it, Tom?

I don’t want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don’t have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

I don’t miss acting. I don’t even see movies. I don’t see plays. I don’t watch television.

I enjoy comedic things. People don’t understand it’s the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

I wouldn’t even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

I don’t accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn’t be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don’t mean to be a wise guy.

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day – from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the ‘New York Daily News,’ and any books or plays or movies that I’m crazy enough to write, I do that from home.