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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.
Harry Shearer
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Harry Shearer
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 23
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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.
Harry Shearer
Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.
Harry Shearer
I was never into candy and games and clowns.
Harry Shearer
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
Harry Shearer
I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.
Harry Shearer
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
Harry Shearer
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with 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.
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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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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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I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
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The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
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If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
Harry Shearer
I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.
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Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
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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
Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
Harry Shearer
I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh.
Harry Shearer
To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
Harry Shearer