Top 100 Reiner Quotes
#1. Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
Michael Moore
#2. The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man?
Jodi Picoult
#3. If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, Rob Reiner really deserves one.
Joe Eszterhas
#4. Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
Joe Eszterhas
#5. I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
Cheryl Hines
#6. Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult truths;
Steve Martin
#7. Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
Jodi Picoult
#8. I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.
Janeane Garofalo
#9. I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story.
Tim Story
#10. Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.
Carl Reiner
#11. 'Girls' is one of my favorite shows of all time. One of the things I love about Lena Dunham and Jenji Kohan and Shonda Rhimes is that they're all willing to show complex, amazing women.
Alysia Reiner
#12. I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
Carl Reiner
#13. Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.
Rob Reiner
#14. This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting.
Rob Reiner
#15. To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.
Rob Reiner
#16. I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.'
Rob Reiner
#17. I can do one 'Breaking Bad' in a night, or one 'Game of Thrones.' But 'House of Cards,' I can really do three in a night. I get sucked in.
Alysia Reiner
#18. I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now.
Alysia Reiner
#19. It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.
Rob Reiner
#20. The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they are not usually going to the movie the first weekend. They take a while to learn about it, probably word of mouth. It takes a lot of money to release a picture.
Rob Reiner
#21. I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked 'Fed Up' - I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries.
Rob Reiner
#22. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.
Alysia Reiner
#23. Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.
Alysia Reiner
#24. I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.
Rob Reiner
#25. I personally am very active with the women's prison association, and I designed a locket, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the women's prison association.
Alysia Reiner
#27. Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.
Fritz Reiner
#28. A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.
Alysia Reiner
#29. People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
Rob Reiner
#30. I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.
Rob Reiner
#31. I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.
Rob Reiner
#32. I am attached to an incredible script called 'Wonder Drug,' about the DES drug disaster. It's a female-based drama, and I am so proud to be a part of because hopefully it will help evoke change - not only in our industry, but in the battle again corruption in big pharma.
Alysia Reiner
#33. I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.
Rob Reiner
#34. For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.
Alysia Reiner
#35. The Mong Kok area in China holds the record for most crowded area, with an estimated population density of 130,000 people per square kilometer.
Luke Reiner
#36. The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.
Alysia Reiner
#37. I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet.
Alysia Reiner
#38. I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?
Alysia Reiner
#39. When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
Carl Reiner
#40. The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.
Rob Reiner
#41. I'm not a fruity girl. I don't like licorice. I'm chocolate all the way.
Alysia Reiner
#42. Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately ride something else for a few days or weeks. When he returns to the movement, he will notice how much more easily the training will proceed.
Reiner Klimke
#43. Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.
Rob Reiner
#44. I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.
Rob Reiner
#45. Anyone who wants to offer me as mushy, earthy, crunchy a role as they can, I will probably take it. In real life, I cry at a drop of a hat, and I'm a mom, and I'm pretty mushy! We all have so many colors as actors that we want to show.
Alysia Reiner
#46. I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.
Rob Reiner
#47. I haven't ridden a bike in a while because I'm so scared I'll get hit and die.
Alysia Reiner
#48. They make three types of movies, and if you don't make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It's either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it's an animated film, or it's an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don't make movies about real people.
Rob Reiner
#49. As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.
Rob Reiner
#50. Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].
Alysia Reiner
#51. A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.
Rob Reiner
#52. Lust is easy, Love is hard, Like is the most important.
Carl Reiner
#53. When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.
Carl Reiner
#54. We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.
Alysia Reiner
#55. If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Rob Reiner
#56. I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
Rob Reiner
#57. When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it.
Rob Reiner
#58. I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - it's a lot of fun because there's no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches.
Rob Reiner
#59. I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.
Alysia Reiner
#60. You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.
Rob Reiner
#61. Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
Alysia Reiner
#62. I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.
Carl Reiner
#63. My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.
Alysia Reiner
#64. I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.
Alysia Reiner
#65. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.
Rob Reiner
#66. I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.
Rob Reiner
#67. Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.
Rob Reiner
#68. It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.
Rob Reiner
#70. I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
Carl Reiner
#71. You have to give people the pleasure of giving you.
Rob Reiner
#72. We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.
Rob Reiner
#73. I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.
Rob Reiner
#74. I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
#75. There are a lot of actresses who can wear their Uggs during a scene, and I only do that if they make me do that - like if I'm working with a shorter man and they request me to take off my shoes.
Alysia Reiner
#76. I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.
Carl Reiner
#77. I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
Carl Reiner
#78. The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.
Fritz Reiner
#79. My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.
Carl Reiner
#80. I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.
Rob Reiner
#81. I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'
Rob Reiner
#82. Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
Carl Reiner
#83. I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
Rob Reiner
#84. I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.
Rob Reiner
#85. I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'
Rob Reiner
#86. A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
Carl Reiner
#87. Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
Carl Reiner
#88. If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.
Rob Reiner
#89. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!
Alysia Reiner
#90. I have to say I'm very good on a bike. Maybe the last time I was 5 years old.
Alysia Reiner
#91. There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - even 'A Few Good Men' because it's an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed.
Rob Reiner
#92. Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.
Rob Reiner
#93. The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.
Alysia Reiner
#94. I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost ... Yoga is a very regular part of my life.
Alysia Reiner
#95. Working out for me really depends on my shoot schedule, but I try to move my body every day. I really believe in exercise as an anti-depressant. It's a great way to feel better.
Alysia Reiner
#96. I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.
Rob Reiner
#97. I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.
Rob Reiner
#98. Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.
Alysia Reiner
#100. Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.
Rob Reiner
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