Shelley Berman Quotes

• As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Important, Awareness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My whole act is confession.

  Shelley Berman

  Confession, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

  Shelley Berman

  Philosophy, Glasses, Water

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• Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

  Shelley Berman

  Art, Comedy, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

  Shelley Berman

  Sex, Culture, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

  Shelley Berman

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

  Shelley Berman

  Reading, Writing, Math

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• The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

  Shelley Berman

  Storm, Lightning, Arms

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• The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

  Shelley Berman

  Problems Love, Etc, Love Of Money

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• I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

  Shelley Berman

  Men, Talking, Cost

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• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

  Shelley Berman

  Memorable, Firsts, Carnegie

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will always love to perform standup comedy.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Actors, Becoming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I developed several comedy phone calls.

  Shelley Berman

  Phones, Phone Calls, Comedy

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• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Writing, Dramatic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Years, California

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• I am careful with my material and presentation.

  Shelley Berman

  Careful, Materials, Presentation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

  Shelley Berman

  Believe, Comedian, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

  Shelley Berman

  First Love, Acting, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Albums, Audience

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• Though it sold very well, I hated "The Edge."

  Shelley Berman

  Hated, Wells, Edges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

  Shelley Berman

  Jobs, Night, Chicago

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

  Shelley Berman

  Smile, Break Up, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

  Shelley Berman

  Marijuana, Years, Smoking

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• The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.

  Shelley Berman

  Sunday, Night, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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