Gelbart Quotes

#1. Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Alan Alda

#2. The halo effect discussed earlier contributes to coherence, because it inclines us to match our view of all the qualities of a person to our judgment of one attribute that is particularly significant. If

Daniel Kahneman

#3. Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Larry Gelbart

#4. Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.

Christina Engela

#5. People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.

Carey Mulligan

#6. Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

#7. I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

Larry Gelbart

#8. Your style is formed by what you can't do.

Larry Gelbart

#9. The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Larry Gelbart

#10. I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Larry Gelbart

#11. I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

Larry Gelbart

#12. I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

Larry Gelbart

#13. There is nothing, for good or for evil, of which a person is incapable.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#14. If Hitler's still alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

Larry Gelbart

#15. The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

Larry Gelbart

#16. I'm a recovering optimist.

Larry Gelbart

#17. I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

Larry Gelbart

#18. Am not at all sure how we should tackle such a crisis, but on the basis of what we know so far, I would suggest, as a start, quarantining Texas. I

Bill Bryson

#19. When I am very sad, I tend towards symbolism.

Joe Dunthorne

#20. Comfort eating or pure greed? Most likely a mixture of both. Pieces of cake or biscuits or chocolate could instantly sweeten the sourness of my life. If you have been called gay all day in the playground, a cake when you returned home from school offered some consolation. A fairy cake of course.

David Walliams

#21. You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

Larry Gelbart

#22. One who loves unconditionally will be blessed unconditionally.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.

Larry Gelbart

#24. I do like to treat myself, I just don't do it very often.

Tricia Helfer

#25. Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Larry Gelbart

#26. I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#27. One does not have humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

#28. We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.

Larry Gelbart

#29. The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Larry Gelbart

#30. Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

Larry Gelbart

#31. If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

Larry Gelbart

#32. The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

Noel Coward

#33. Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Larry Gelbart

#34. Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

Larry Gelbart

#35. I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

Larry Gelbart

#36. One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

#37. I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.

Betty Wright