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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
Garry K. Marshall
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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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Never underestimate the power of your sister.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.
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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 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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I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
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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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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'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'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 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 dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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