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Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
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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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.
Harry Shearer
I was never into candy and games and clowns.
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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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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
If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
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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.
Harry Shearer
I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
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
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.
Harry Shearer
Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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
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.
Harry Shearer
To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
Harry Shearer
[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.
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
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
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
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 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
