Neil Simon Quotes - Page 2

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• [When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

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  Writing, Knives, Play

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• I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

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  Couple, Meat, Sandwiches

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• I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

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  New York, Home, Character

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• I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

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  Character, Writing, Years

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

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  Long, Enjoy Life, Waiting

  Neil Simon (1971). “The comedy of Neil Simon”, Random House Inc

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• I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

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  Character, Play, Ego

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• I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

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  Writing, Thinking, Obligation

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• Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Party

  Neil Simon (1979). “The collected plays of Neil Simon”, Plume Books

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• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

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  Graduation, School, People

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• I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.

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  Hands, Needs, Use

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

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  Character, Play, Personality

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

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  Funny, New York, Humor

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• Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

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  Beautiful, Sexy, Intelligent

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• Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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  Money, Zero, Fog

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• People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

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  Awards, People, Mechanic

  New York Times, June 4, 1984.

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• He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

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  Funny Life, Humorous, Nervous

  Neil Simon (2000). “Odd Couple One and Two”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

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  Sports, Time, Matter

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• Baptists are only funny underwater.

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  Underwater, Baptists

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• I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

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  Writing, Play, Mind

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

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  Notebook, Writing, Play

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

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  Children, Men, Dating

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

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  New York, Eight, Two

  Playboy Interview, February 1979.

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• The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

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  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

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  Book, Wonderful, Close Friends

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• Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

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  Typewriters, Long, Dancing

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