Odd Couple Quotes

• Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

  Walter Matthau

  Couple, Personality, Plutonium

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

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

  Neil Simon

  Funny Life, Humorous, Nervous

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

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• You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

  Brett Somers

  Couple, Fighting, Culture

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  Walter Matthau

  Monday, Art, Couple

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• I really enjoyed Eddie Bracken. He told me a great story. He did The Odd Couple on Broadway, replacing Art Carney, and he said, "Art Carney did it for six months and I did it for three years, and I don't think anyone I've ever spoken to saw me. They all saw Art Carney."

  Brent Spiner

  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Couple, Reality, Two

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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

  Neil Simon

  Couple, Meat, Sandwiches

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• Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Couple, Guy, Trying

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• We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on pretty well. I have challenged him and he has challenged me. His form has been up and down and that can be tough. I suppose we've been lucky. Sourav and I complement each other. We are two different personalities. He is softer than me. I probably spoke my mind in the change rooms in a rougher way than him. Sourav and I formed an odd couple but it seems to have worked.

  John Wright

  Jobs, Couple, Ideas

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• Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women. I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy. ... I'm like that guy on the Odd Couple, and it's not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

  Rick Majerus

  Couple, Guy, Pieces

  Rick Majerus, Gene Wojciechowski (2000). “My Life On a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin' Utes”, Hyperion

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