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I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled a joke, that they could technically call a joke.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
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I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
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[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
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You're used to a TV show, and TV is just made for TV shows. It's not made for live events.So anyways, I was resistant to it, but I did it anyway.
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