Top 28 Robert Klein Quotes

#1. My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

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#2. 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 through the Lincoln Tunnel.

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#3. I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

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#4. I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

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#5. 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 that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.

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#6. There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be members of the family.

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#7. Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

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#8. 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 should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

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#9. 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

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#10. 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 Jewish humor is still with us.

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#11. I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely.

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#12. I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

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#13. The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

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#14. And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

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#15. 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 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

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#16. I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

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#17. Comedy has lost its eloquence.

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#18. I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

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#19. I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

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#20. Fear is the greatest salesman.

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#21. I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

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#22. I was a class clown.

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#23. 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 family.

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#24. 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 she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

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#25. The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

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#26. In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

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#27. 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 versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

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#28. When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

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