Garry Marshall Quotes

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different ... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

I'm too old to be forced.

I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

I like to get up in the morning and see people.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you've got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don't.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.