More From Tom Lehrer
- "My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that’s just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun."
- "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
- "Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh."
More In Success
- "In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it’s on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like."― Rowan Atkinson
- "There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild."― Javier Bardem
- "What I have in common with the character in ‘Truman’ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."― Jim Carrey