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“It could be worse... It could be raining”
― Marty Feldman

“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”
― Marty Feldman

“I can't believe my eyes.”
― Marty Feldman

“The function of my comedy is not to provide answers, but to postulate questions, impertinent questions and therefore finally, pertinent questions. Not to open doors, merely to unlock them. To not invade the boundaries of probability but stabd a cool guard this side of the boundaries. Somewhere between there's a thesis. To pump up the muscle of dialectic (or in my case Di-Eclectic!) against the brawn of surrealistic solution.

I play not Hamlet, but the second gravedigger, not Lear but the fool.”
― Marty Feldman, eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius

“My mind is an attic full of crazy dreams that never quit or disappoint me, and I have been blessed with these eyEs to see things differently and have people see me in a different way.”
― Marty Feldman, eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius

“Winning doesn’t interest me terribly, in the sense that in anything I have ever done I have never wanted to be better than anyone else… I was not interested in beating anyone, just in getting better by myself.”
― Marty Feldman, eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius

“I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.”
― Marty Feldman

“I wanted to be a musician, but again I thought that this was someone who was especially born to be one, a prodigy type of thing, which nobody chose to call me, so therefore I wasn’t one. The trouble is that all these years later I still think this way.

I thought that, if I were to pick up an alto sax, that within an hour or so I would be able to play like Charlie Parker, so I will never pick one up, and thus will always have potential. This thing inhibits me from walking on a tightrope. As long as I never do it, I might be the best in the world.”
― Marty Feldman, eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius

“I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’ll gladly eat a network executive or a politician……”
― Marty Feldman

“In retrospect, come to think of it, isn't everything seen in retrospect?”
― Marty Feldman

“I loved the idea of seeing myself in print, though I immediately felt vulnerable because my stuff was now open to criticism.”
― Marty Feldman, eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius