Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge. — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy… — Carl Reiner Copy Share
I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one. — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Going through war and living is a very important process. You realize how vulnerable you are and how lucky you are to be in… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?" — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
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… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake. — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
