Robert Klein Quotes

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• According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones…
• But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being…
• In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts…
• My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family
• In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes
• And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game…
• [T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for…
• I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the…
• What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what…
• When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
• I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
• I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or…
• Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant…
• Comedy has lost its eloquence.
• But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that…
• I was a class clown.
• Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.
• So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series…
• The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

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