Harpo Marx Quotes
"If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world`s against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it."
When asked how many children he`d like to have: "So many that whenever we go out, there can be one in every window, waving to us."
"But I guess that`s the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don`t mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself."
"I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived."
On visiting Hamburg, Germany, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power: "I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word `Jude` painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn`t know what hit them and didn`t know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn`t been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvah, and it was the first time since I`d had the measles that I was too sick to eat."
(on comedy playwright George S. Kaufman) He had great integrity. You never had to watch him when he was dealing.
Harpo, she`s a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York`s East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
