The Marx Brothers Quotes

#1. When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Alden Ehrenreich

#2. I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

Drake Bell

#3. What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

Buster Keaton

#4. You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have!

Groucho Marx

#5. I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.

Lee Evans

#6. 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

#7. Dat's a some joke, Hey Boss.

Chico Marx

#8. My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

Steve Sabol

#9. 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

#10. The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Irving Berlin

#11. Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

Anne Meara

#12. Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

Martin Freeman

#14. I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

Joshua Malina

#15. 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

#16. Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

Woody Allen

#17. Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.

Javier Cercas

#18. I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.

Will Ferrell

#19. I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

David Zucker

#20. I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.

Marilyn Monroe

#21. I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.

Spike Jonze

#22. Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

Winston Churchill