Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Betty Comden

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Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Betty Comden was an American lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter who contributed to numerous Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green spanned six decades: "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history." The musical-comedy duo of Comden and Green collaborated most notably with composers Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein, as well enjoyed success with Singin' in the Rain, as part of the famed "Freed unit" at MGM.

May 3, 1917 - November 23, 2006

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New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

Betty Comden

There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Betty Comden

Broadway's not what it used to be.

Betty Comden

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

Betty Comden

[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.

Betty Comden

We never thought we were. That's the important part.

Betty Comden

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Betty Comden

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