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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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Garry Marshall
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 13
Died: 2016
Died: July 19
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Garry Kent Marshall
Garry K. Marshall
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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 think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
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I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.
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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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Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
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I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but then I had seen it again... Well I always cry at the same place, when they play that song Wind Beneath My Wings. It gets you.
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I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'
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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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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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I like to get up in the morning and see people.
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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 played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.
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