“My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.” MindWantedJobsCareersBrotherDadMy DadHatedHatsStrawsOvercoatRitzStraw HatsMarx Brothers Author:Steve Sabol
“Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.” GivingLife IsBlackCan DoWatchesBrotherDown AndHorriblePleasantWireSymphonyMarx Brothers Author:Woody Allen
“Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!” WantWellsMadeBookShowsBeautifulEffectsBrotherExcitingExcellenceWelcomeHallsPresentationVery BeautifulCarnegieVaudevilleAbramCarnegie HallBeautiful BooksMarx Brothers Author:Jon J Muth
“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.” ThinkingMadeHoursLaughingSeriousBrotherTvsGrewGrew UpInspiredMovieZeroMarx Brothers Author:David Zucker
“When I was a little kid I loved the Marx brothers and discovered Monty Python when I was 10 or 11-years-old. I used to take a tape recorder and hold it up in front of the TV to record entire episodes to play over and over again, so that I could memorise it.” YearsLittlesPlayKidsUsedRecordsFrontsBrotherTvsTapeEpisodesLittle KidRecordersPythonMontyMarx Brothers Author:Rainn Wilson
“The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair.” FirstsWellsEnoughBrotherBirdFairsComedianFascinatedRebelliousLater In LifeMarx Brothers Author:Judd Apatow
“Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.” WayMadeSpaceClearBrotherMadRationalMagazinesDoomMarx Brothers Author:Marshall McLuhan
“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.” FirstsLastsFormNiceChildhoodTelevisionBrotherPeriodsRadioComicComedianDecentAnarchyLast DayMarx Brothers Author:George Carlin