Irving Berlin Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

God bless America, land that I love; stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above.

I got lost but look what I found.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Talent is only the starting point.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

There's no business like show business.

There's no people like show people.

You're not sick you're just in love.

Trivia

Irving ran away from home after the death of his father.

Irving was the youngest of 8 children.

Irving was portrayed by Keith Allen in De-Lovely.

Irving could not read music.

Irving's first wife died of pneumonia and typhoid at the age of 20.

Irving's father was a rabbi.