Kaufman Quotes

A discharged employee leaves unhappy. Many people who are discharged, first thing they do is open the Yellow Pages and call a lawyer, looking for someone to sue. [As a business owner] all you can do is take steps to protect your exposure. - Alan Kaufman

[under pressure to keep speech brief] Thanks to the Academy. 29 seconds. 27 seconds. That's really intimidating. I'll try to look somewhere else. - Charlie Kaufman

[Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper: part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble.] In a world where the dead have returned to life, ... the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. - Dennis Hopper

[Don and Tom] seemed like an odd couple at first. Don was a patent lawyer and Tom was a complete nerd. - David Kaufman

(Playwrights) now are writing for sitcoms because they get a lot more money, and the quality doesn't have to be that good... But, boy, some of these older pieces like (those by) (George S.) Kaufman and (Moss) Hart slay me with how well they're written and constructed. - Douglas Stark