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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
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Harry Julius Shearer
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I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
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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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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
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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.
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I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
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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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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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If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
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I was never into candy and games and clowns.
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I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.
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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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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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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, Oh, Jefferson had slaves? It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
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