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Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley




Full Name: Robert Charles Benchley

Birthdate: September 15, 1889
Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date of Death: November 21, 1945

Occupation: Actor, Author, Columnist, Humorist, and Screenwriter
Profile: Best known for his contributions to The New Yorker.

Website: http://www.robertbenchley.org/
Number of Quotes: 4




Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

I never sleep through a performance. I always make sure that I am awake for the intermission.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

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