Quotes About Harpo Marx

#1. I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

Harmony Korine

#2. I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

Woody Allen

#3. The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.

Walter Kerr

#5. Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Bob Dylan

#6. Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

Jim Cummings

#7. I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

Nile Rodgers

#8. My name is whaddya care
My home is anywhere
People say I'm awful dumb
So I thought to you I'd come

Harpo Marx

#9. He [Harpo] loved life and lived it joyously and deeply and that's about as good an epitaph as anyone can have.

Groucho Marx

#10. Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Harpo Marx

#11. Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear.

Richelle Mead

#12. In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Harpo Marx

#13. In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

Harpo Marx

#14. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Harpo Marx

#15. The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Michael Moorcock

#16. I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

Harpo Marx

#17. I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Harpo Marx

#18. He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Harpo Marx

#19. If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

Dov Davidoff

#20. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.

Harpo Marx

#21. The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Harpo Marx

#22. But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

Harpo Marx

#23. I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.

Lee Evans

#24. In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

Larry Brooks

#25. There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

#26. If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Harpo Marx

#27. In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

Harpo Marx

#28. Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Harpo Marx