Neil Simon: Citáty anglicky
“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.”
Interviewed in Newsweek, (2 February 1970)
New York Times, June 4, 1984.
On receiving an honorary degree from Williams College
Mother, in Barefoot in the Park (1963); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: New American Library, 1986) vol. 1, p. 207
“You're welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.”
Evy, in The Gingerbread Lady (1970); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: Random House, 1971) vol. 2, p. 76
The Play Goes On (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999) p. 260
“And so she lived…hopefully…ever after.”
Sweet Charity (1966); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: Random House, 1991) vol. 3, p. 113
“A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.”
Rewrites (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) p. 105
“There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.”
Interviewed in Playboy (February 1979)
