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.