28 Quotes by Marty Feldman

It could be worse... It could be raining

The function of my comedy is not to provide answers, but to postulate questions, impertinent questions and therefore finally, pertinent questions. Not to open doors, merely to unlock them. To not invade the boundaries of probability but stabd a cool guard this side of the boundaries. Somewhere between there's a thesis. To pump up the muscle of dialectic (or in my case Di-Eclectic!) against the brawn of surrealistic solution.I play not Hamlet, but the second gravedigger, not Lear but the fool.

In retrospect, come to think of it, isn't everything seen in retrospect?

My mind is an attic full of crazy dreams that never quit or disappoint me, and I have been blessed with these eyEs to see things differently and have people see me in a different way.

Winning doesn’t interest me terribly, in the sense that in anything I have ever done I have never wanted to be better than anyone else… I was not interested in beating anyone, just in getting better by myself.

I loved the idea of seeing myself in print, though I immediately felt vulnerable because my stuff was now open to criticism.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.