Shelley Berman Quotes
"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Education, Experience, Awareness)
"My whole act is confession."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Act, Confession)
"I am careful with my material and presentation."
- Shelley Berman
"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Humor, Literary, Teaching, Writing)
"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Teaching, University)
"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Actor)
"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Gold)
"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Chicago, First, Job, Night)
"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Love, Comedy, Will)
"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Love, Work, Acting, First, First love)
"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Performance)
"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Smoking, Years)
"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Comedians)
"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Performance, First, Night, Options, Right)
"Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge."
- Shelley Berman
"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Art, Comedy)
"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: People, Result, Years)
"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Performance, Appearance, First)
"While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Fun, May, Smile, Will)
"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Health, Love, Money, Old, Problems, Security)