21 Quotes by Harpo Marx

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.