Teaching I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. - Shelley Berman
Anger Sex Music 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
Health Money The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. - Shelley Berman
Years People So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up. - Shelley Berman
Comedians You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians. - Stephen Colbert
Comedians It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing. - Harvey Pekar
Comedians Writers Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. - Carl Reiner
Comedians Writer Film Want I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this. - Gene Wilder
Comedians Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language. - Alan Rudolph