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Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.
Garry Marshall
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Garry Marshall
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 13
Died: 2016
Died: July 19
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Actor
Television Producer
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The Bronx
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Garry Kent Marshall
Garry K. Marshall
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
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I like to get up in the morning and see people.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing
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I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.
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I really wasn't too interested in writing Father Knows Best and Ozzie And Harriet. I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
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I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.
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I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.
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In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the Laverne & Shirley TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.
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That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.
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If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.
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I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing.
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I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...
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You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.
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I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.
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You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript in a way or just somebody that looks a little like they should get it. So this is all I learned actually learn from Lucy [Ball].
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I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
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Never underestimate the power of your sister.
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