Quotes by Shelley Berman

• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
• As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
• My whole act is confession.
• I am careful with my material and presentation.
• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
• I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
• I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
• Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.
• My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
• I will always love to perform standup comedy.
• Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
• Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
• I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
• I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
• The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
• Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
• 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.
• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
• 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.
• The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.