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To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
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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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.
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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.
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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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I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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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 have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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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.
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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 was never into candy and games and clowns.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
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