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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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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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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 think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
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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 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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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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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'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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Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
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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 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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[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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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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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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I like to get up in the morning and see people.
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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 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'm too old to be forced.
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For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.
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