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I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

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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
New York City
Garry Kent Marshall
Garry K. Marshall
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I'm too old to be forced.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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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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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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I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called Lucky 13, it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz.
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I like to get up in the morning and see people.
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