17 Quotes by Charles Nelson Reilly

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'

Everyone should have hair. When you get dressed up, you must do that last whip of hair spray, or life's not worth living.

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordinary because of the people who have loved me. I say twilight because of what people say to me in the supermarket.