Quotes by Shelley Berman - Page 1

My whole act is confession.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Confession
Whole
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I developed several comedy phone calls.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Comedy
Phone Calls
Phones
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I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Actors
Becoming
Comedian
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I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Marijuana
Smoking
Years
Years Ago
Quit
Twenty
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Though it sold very well, I hated 'The Edge.'
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Hated
Edge
Sold
Though
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I will always love to perform standup comedy.
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Perform
Standup
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Though it sold very well, I hated "The Edge."
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Edges
Hated
Wells
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I am careful with my material and presentation.
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Careful
Materials
Presentation
Material
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My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Jobs
Chicago
Night
Mr
First Job
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Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
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Acting
First Love
Firsts
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Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
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Art
Comedy
Form
Art Form
Standup
Unquestionably
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I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
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Believe
Comedian
Important
Believe I Believe Important
Comedians
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A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
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Funny
Business
Humor
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Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
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Albums
Audience
Comedian
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'Inside' was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Comedian
Album
Performance
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As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
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Awareness
Comedian
Important
Attain
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The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Night
Sunday
Sunday Night
Two
Allen
Performance
Options
Steve
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I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Humor
Dramatic
Program
Teaching
Writing
Master
Literary
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We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
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Math
Reading
Writing
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'Outside' came in '60. 'The Edge' in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was 'Inside.'
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Gold
Inside
Biggest
Edge
Seller
Outside
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The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Appearance
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Firsts
Memorable
Concert
Hall
Performance
Standup
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The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
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Etc
Love Of Money
Plague
Please
Problems Love
Love Health Money
Status
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I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
California
Southern California
Teaching
University
Years
Graduate
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I've got these two wonderful people who run my web site and put me on Facebook. They didn't even ask me. I'm very appreciative of it.
Shelley Berman / Comedian
Appreciative
Site
Me People Who
Me People Wonderful
Facebook
Web
Web Site
Wonderful People
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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.
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Anger
Culture
Deprived
Lacking
Loud
Privacy
Sex
Sweetness
Elevated
Subtleties
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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 / Comedian
Break Up
Smile
Fun
Having Fun
Hey
Improvising
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I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life, Sarah and me. It's my favorite of all my poems.
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Life Me Never
Recent
Sarah
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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.
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Men
Cost
Talking
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Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.
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Disagree
Great Time
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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.
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Bankruptcy
Blow
Edge
Me Result People
Result
Wondering
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I don't know the accident of still being married. I was the worst human being. But we were, I guess, in love. So much has happened to us to bring us together and keep us together.
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Accident
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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.
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Arms
Lightning
Storm
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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.
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Glasses
Philosophy
Water
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