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The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
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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More quotes by Harry Shearer
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.
Harry Shearer
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.
Harry Shearer
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.
Harry Shearer
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.
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
If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
Harry Shearer
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.
Harry Shearer
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.
Harry Shearer
I was never into candy and games and clowns.
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 am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
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
The theater business is very much about Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April.
Harry Shearer
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
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.
Harry Shearer
I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.
Harry Shearer
The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
Harry Shearer
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
Harry Shearer
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
