Arthur Marx quotes

Arthur Marx quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.”
-- Arthur Marx

Source : "The one, the only Groucho on PBS" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2001.

#Home Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #People Quotes

“Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.”
“Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.”
“I don't do office work at home.”
“Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.”
“Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.”
“For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.”
“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

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