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You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
Harry Shearer
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Harry Shearer
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 23
Actor
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Harry Julius Shearer
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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
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I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.
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I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.
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To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
Harry Shearer
Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are it's about the situation they're in.
Harry Shearer
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.
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If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
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[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.
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I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.
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I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
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Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
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When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
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I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.
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If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
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Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
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You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
Harry Shearer
Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.
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