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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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Garry Marshall
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 13
Died: 2016
Died: July 19
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Garry Kent Marshall
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One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.
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Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.
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I like to get up in the morning and see people.
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For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.
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I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It was a great visit and I do a whole-behind-the-scenes thing and I tell stories about Bette [Mudler] and Barbara Hershey and everybody and that was fun. It made me cry again.
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Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
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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 work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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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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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 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 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'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 think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for LA Confidential which was great.
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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 dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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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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Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.
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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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