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Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman was a British actor, comedy writer, and comedian, known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. He starred in several British television comedy series, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. He was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Young Frankenstein.

✵ 8. July 1934 – 2. December 1982
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Famous Marty Feldman Quotes

“When I quoted Bulwer Lytton's "The pen is mightier than the sword" to Marty Feldman he added reflectively, "Yes, and considerably easier to write with."”

Marty Feldman

Kenneth Williams Acid Drops (London: Orion, [1980] 1999) p. xvi.

“I was about five and a half or six when I converted [to vegetarianism] … I was brought up the first five years of my life in London, in the working-class part of the city, where the only animals that a child is liable to see are domestic animals, or cats, or pigeons, or horses, none of which one eats. Then I was evacuated onto a farm when the war came, and billeted with this family of farmers, and I got very friendly with a rabbit—George, the rabbit. Then one day, George the rabbit was George the lunch. For a farming family there was nothing obscene about that. They kill animals; they serve them up at table and say, "Hey, yes, that's the animal you were playing with yesterday!"—which is not abnormal. It was obscene to me as a child.”

Marty Feldman

Interview in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1979), p. 30.

“Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.”

Marty Feldman

Interview in Speaking Frankly by Wendy Leigh (London: Muller, 1978).

“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”

Marty Feldman

As quoted in He Who Laughs Lasts by Shawn Lovley, p. 51.

“Hookers have to deliver on their promise… unlike politicians.”

Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman - Six Degrees of Separation, BBC4.

“I carry Keaton's photo around with me to remind me what happened to him. If the Hollywood system can destroy him it can destroy me.”

Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman - Six Degrees of Separation, BBC4.

“Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.”

Marty Feldman

The Times, June 9, 1969.

“I feel about Keaton the way an organist thinks of Bach.”

Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman - Six Degrees of Separation, BBC4.

“Money can't buy poverty.”

Marty Feldman

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