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Carl Reiner Biography

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American comedian, actor, director, and writer whose career spans seven decades.

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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

Giving, Good, Impossible, Stories, Task, Tasks

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.

Complained, Father, Hard, House, Watchmaker, Work Ethic

An attitude will give you heft.

Attitude, Give, Giving, Heft

People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.

Appreciated, Kids, Make, People, Premium, Thinking

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

Early, Like, People, Three, World

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.

Different, Language, Ordinary, People, Please

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Laugh, Laughing, People, Thing, Truth

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Charming, Coward, Fight, Fighting, Words

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.

Easiest, Fighting, Gun, Mouths, Seemingly, Two

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

Answers, Asking, Asking Questions, People, Questions

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Dance, Life, Love, Love Is, Lust

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Freezing, Nature, People, Snow, Weather, Winter

I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.

Bed, Book, Buy, Day, People, Tweeting

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.

Book, Books, Children, Three

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Ahead, Games, Laugh, Laughing, Name, Names

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.

Atheist, Commandments, God, Hurt, Men, Things

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

Casually, Know, Life, Mets, People, Writing

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

Atheist, Different, God, Man, Men, Take

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

Found, Know, Knows, Write, Writing

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh. . . people need to laugh.

People, Laughing, Needs, Know, Laugh, Everybody

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