Betty Comden Quotes

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.

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

[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.

Broadway's not what it used to be.

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

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

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