Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.

Simon grew up in New York during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, and giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were The Phil Silvers Show and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows in 1950, where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond.

He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered seventeen Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays showing on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor.

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Famous quotes by Neil Simon:

"Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects."

"Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples."

"Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with "I've got to get another play"

"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far."

"I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our lives-before the obligations start in."

"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor."

"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."

"If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet."

"I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failur"

"He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie."

"Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18."

"New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it."

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‘Barefoot in the Park’ opens April 4 at Coach House in Kingston

Daily Freeman 23 Mar 2025

— Coach House Players’ production of Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot in the Park” opens a two-week run on Friday, April 4, at 7.30 p.m ... “It’s Neil Simon, and I love Neil Simon.

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Joplin Little Theatre puts feminine spin on Simon’s classic ‘Odd Couple’

NWA Online 23 Mar 2025

Playwright Neil Simon is "good at making them so opposed, ...

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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: March 23, 2025

Daily Freeman 23 Mar 2025

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will stage Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot In the Park” on April 4, 5,11, and 12 at 7.30 p.m.

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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: March 22, 2025

Daily Freeman 22 Mar 2025

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will stage Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot In the Park” on April 4, 5,11, and 12 at 7.30 p.m.

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It’s Conan O’Brien’s big night — at Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center

Detroit news 20 Mar 2025

the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ... Others worry that it will be something of a swan song ... Billy Crystal, Lily Tomlin, Neil Simon, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett and David Letterman have received both ... ”.

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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: March 20, 2025

Daily Freeman 20 Mar 2025

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will stage Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot In the Park” on April 4, 5,11, and 12 at 7.30 p.m.

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‘Lost in Yonkers’ opens this weekend at VK Garage

Hill Country Community Journal 19 Mar 2025

Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play “Lost In Yonkers” will be presented by Playhouse 2000 in the VK Garage Theater beginning Friday night at 7.30 p.m ....

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Female 'Odd Couple' returns for SCCT visit

Sioux City Journal 19 Mar 2025

Even though the Sioux City Community Theatre is staging Neil Simon’s classic comedy “The Odd Couple,” it’s production will feature Olive and Florence instead of Oscar and Felix ... .

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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: March 19, 2025

Daily Freeman 19 Mar 2025

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will stage Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot In the Park” on April 4, 5,11, and 12 at 7.30 p.m.

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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: March 18, 2025

Daily Freeman 18 Mar 2025

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will stage Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot In the Park” on April 4, 5,11, and 12 at 7.30 p.m.

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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: March 17, 2025

Daily Freeman 17 Mar 2025

• Coach House Players, 12 Augusta St., Kingston, will stage Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot In the Park” on April 4, 5,11, and 12 at 7.30 p.m.

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Shahrzad Theater Complex to host Neil Simon’s “Dinner Party”

Tehran Times 16 Mar 2025

TEHRAN-Shahrzad Theater Complex in Tehran will host the play “Dinner Party” written by Neil Simon from March 30 ... .

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A family works to survive in Neil Simon’s ‘Lost in Yonkers’ at Sarasota Jewish Theatre

Herald-Tribune Sarasota 16 Mar 2025

Actress Carolyn Michel made a promise to her husband, Howard Millman, not long before his death last month that she would take on a major role in the Sarasota Jewish Theatre production of Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers .” ... By Neil Simon.

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Nicki Chapman: ‘I was offered a Banksy for £5,000. I could have made a killing’

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Mar 2025

In the early 2000s she became a judge on the ITV talent shows Pop Idol and Popstar, with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox ... With Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox on Pop Idol, for which she was paid five figures for a day’s work.

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Streaming: A Real Pain and the best mismatched buddy movies

The Observer 16 Mar 2025

Neil Simon’s comedy about two divorcés – one a prissy neat-freak, the other a jockish slob – turned incompatible, roommates hinged on archetypes so broad they might not have seemed quite human if not ...

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