Top 33 Gelbart's 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 Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
Larry Gelbart
#3. The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
Larry Gelbart
#4. It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
Kate DiCamillo
#5. Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
Larry Gelbart
#6. We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
David Sheff
#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
#9. This one is for our crew, but it's also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.
Laura Goode
#10. One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart
#11. 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
#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
#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
#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. 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
#19. 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
#20. I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go.
Harper Lee
#21. Ironically, the Democrats' great insistence on the natural equality of all white men prompted them to make a more glaring exception of non-whites. Taking seriously the motto "all men are created equal," Democrats called into question the very humanity of nonwhites in order to keep them unequal.
Daniel Walker Howe
#22. Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
Larry Gelbart
#23. Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
Larry Gelbart
#24. If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
Larry Gelbart
#26. Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
Bruce Lee
#27. We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
Larry Gelbart
#30. 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
#31. Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
J. C. Watts
#32. 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
#33. You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
Larry Gelbart
