Frases de Sidney Joseph Perelman

Sidney Joseph "S.J." Perelman foi humorista, escritor, cartunista e roteirista estadunidense. Ele escreveu roteiros para os primeiros filmes dos irmãos Marx, Monkey Business e Horse Feathers, e fez parte do seleto time de autores da revista The New Yorker nos anos 1940 Perelman ganhou um Oscar por seu roteiro para o filme de 1956, Around the World in 80 Days. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Fevereiro 1904 – 17. Outubro 1979
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Sidney Joseph Perelman frases e citações

Sidney Joseph Perelman: Frases em inglês

“I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.”

"Captain Future, Block That Kick!," The New Yorker (20 January 1940) p. 23 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1940/01/20/captain-future-block-that-kick
Published in book form under the same title in The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 71

“I have Bright's disease and he has mine.”

A patient confronts his doctor, in a cartoon printed in Judge magazine (November 16, 1929)

“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”

Groucho Marx on Perelman’s Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1928), quoted in Dorothy Herrmann S. J. Perelman: A Life (1986) p. 61.
Criticism

“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”

As quoted in I Seem to be a Verb (Bantam Books, 1970), p. 62

“Oh, son, I wish you hadn’t become a scenario writer!”

she sniffled.
"Aw, now, Moms," I comforted her, "it’s no worse than playing the piano in a call house."
"Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 45