Marx Brothers Quotes

• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  Harpo Marx

  Brother, New York, Children

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• When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.

  George Carlin

  Brother, Nice, Childhood

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• Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Brother, Space, Mad

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• Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Watches, Leisure

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• My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

  Steve Sabol

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

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

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• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

  David Zucker

  Movie, Brother, Zero

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

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• I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sexy, Brother, Play

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• The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair.

  Judd Apatow

  Brother, Later In Life, Bird

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• When I was a little kid I loved the Marx brothers and discovered Monty Python when I was 10 or 11-years-old. I used to take a tape recorder and hold it up in front of the TV to record entire episodes to play over and over again, so that I could memorise it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Brother, Kids, Python

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!

  Jon J Muth

  Beautiful, Brother, Book

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• Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

  Woody Allen

  Brother, Symphony, Giving

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Brother, Kids, Parent

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• What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

  Buster Keaton

  Brother, Comedian, Goats

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