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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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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
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
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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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.
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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
[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.
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You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
Harry Shearer
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
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
The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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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 think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
Harry Shearer
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.
Harry Shearer
If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
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
To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
Harry Shearer
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.
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'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.
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.
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