Betty Comden Quotes & Sayings

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. — Betty Comden

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

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

Broadway's not what it used to be. — Betty Comden

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

[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. — Betty Comden

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since. — Betty Comden

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