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Top 20 Larry Gelbart Quotes (2025 Update)

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Most jokes state a bitter truth.”

1. “Most jokes state a bitter truth.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.”

2. “The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “We may be born equal but we’re not equally talented.”

3. “We may be born equal but we’re not equally talented.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It’s the sheer quantity. It’s the Niagara of opinion, of information. It’s not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.”

4. “I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It’s the sheer quantity. It’s the Niagara of opinion, of information. It’s not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.”

5. “One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Marriage isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

6. “Marriage isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.”

7. “If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “The Amazon is still burning; we just don’t hear the smoke detectors anymore.”

8. “The Amazon is still burning; we just don’t hear the smoke detectors anymore.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Your style is formed by what you can’t do.”

9. “Your style is formed by what you can’t do.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.”

10. “I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It’s counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.”

11. “I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It’s counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.”

12. “Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the legs that go first; it’s remembering the word for legs.”

13. “Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the legs that go first; it’s remembering the word for legs.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Today’s audience knows more about what’s on television than what’s in life.”

14. “Today’s audience knows more about what’s on television than what’s in life.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.”

15. “The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I’m a recovering optimist.”

16. “I’m a recovering optimist.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I write what I write and I honestly don’t care if it gets on or not. I’m writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.”

17. “I write what I write and I honestly don’t care if it gets on or not. I’m writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.”

18. “Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I refuse to do anything easy. I’m writing for the smartest person out there. I’m not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I’m writing to say you’re not alone. I’m not alone. We’re not alone.”

19. “I refuse to do anything easy. I’m writing for the smartest person out there. I’m not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I’m writing to say you’re not alone. I’m not alone. We’re not alone.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

20. “Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I don’t think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn’t “cast-contingent.” That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.”

21. “I don’t think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn’t “cast-contingent.” That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.”

22. “If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can’t just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.”

23. “I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can’t just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.”

— Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart Quote: “You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.”

24. “You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.”

— Larry Gelbart

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