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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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I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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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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[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].
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Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
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I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
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I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
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Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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