Neil Simon Quotes

• Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Life

• I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they’ve come up with so far.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Living

• Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

• The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

• People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with “I’ve got to get another play.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our lives-before the obligations start in.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  Neil Simon

• Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn’t count.

  Neil Simon

• Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

  Neil Simon

• Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

  Neil Simon

• New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

  Neil Simon

• Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he’d known them since he was 18.

  Neil Simon

• Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

  Neil Simon

• If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.

  Neil Simon

• If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

  Neil Simon

  Tags in Painting

• He’s too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Movies

• The body of a young woman is God’s greatest achievement. Of course He could have made it to last longer, but you can’t have everything.

  Neil Simon

  Topics in Funny, God

Neil Simon (18)

Birth:	4th July, 1927
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Screenwriter, Playwriter

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• 1934 - Nanette Newman
• 1926 - Abdoulaye Wade
• 1959 - Rupert Everett
• 1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich
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Deaths

• 1911 - William Gilbert
• 2004 - Samuel Dash
• 2004 - Sam Dash
• 1979 - Mary Pickford