Marty Feldman Quotes

The pen is mightier than the sword... an considerably easier to write with. - Marty Feldman

It could be worse... It could be raining

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

I can't believe my eyes.

The other person at the Frost Report table to whom I was drawn was one Marty Feldman. I hasten to add that my interest in him was platonic: in fact when I first met him, I was rather shocked by his physical appearance. Dressed only in black, heavily suntanned and very fit, he looked like an Armani gargoyle. This was the script editor?

Winning doesn’t interest me terribly, in the sense that in anything I have ever done I have never wanted to be better than anyone else… I was not interested in beating anyone, just in getting better by myself.

Ho pensato di fare un viaggio" disse Harry. "Ah sì? Dove?". "Non so. Non cercatemi. Soprattutto non nel Nord Africa." "Eh?" "E' una battuta di Marty Feldman in un film. Voleva scappare, però voleva anche essere ritrovato.

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

My mind is an attic full of crazy dreams that never quit or disappoint me, and I have been blessed with these eyEs to see things differently and have people see me in a different way.

The function of my comedy is not to provide answers, but to postulate questions, impertinent questions and therefore finally, pertinent questions. Not to open doors, merely to unlock them. To not invade the boundaries of probability but stabd a cool guard this side of the boundaries. Somewhere between there's a thesis. To pump up the muscle of dialectic (or in my case Di-Eclectic!) against the brawn of surrealistic solution. I play not Hamlet, but the second gravedigger, not Lear but the fool.

In retrospect, come to think of it, isn't everything seen in retrospect?

In retrospect, come to think of it, isn't everything seen in retrospect?

Comedian Marty Feldman adds, “The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

I wanted to be a musician, but again I thought that this was someone who was especially born to be one, a prodigy type of thing, which nobody chose to call me, so therefore I wasn’t one. The trouble is that all these years later I still think this way. I thought that, if I were to pick up an alto sax, that within an hour or so I would be able to play like Charlie Parker, so I will never pick one up, and thus will always have potential. This thing inhibits me from walking on a tightrope. As long as I never do it, I might be the best in the world.

I loved the idea of seeing myself in print, though I immediately felt vulnerable because my stuff was now open to criticism.