Leslie Nielsen Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm afraid if I don't keep moving, they're going to catch me ... I am 81 years old and I want to see what's around the corner, and I don't see any reason in the world not to keep working. But I am starting to value my down time a great deal because I am realizing there might be other things to do that I am overlooking.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Moving, Years, World

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• I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Animal, Play, Feet

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• Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Leslie, Spoof

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• It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Past, Years, Type

  "Leslie Nielsen, 84, Romantic Hero Turned Comic, Dies" by Anita Gates, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2010.

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• The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Distance, Golf, Balls

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• The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Laughing, Comedian, Style

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• You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Practice, People, What If

  "Interview with Leslie Nielsen Actor and Comedian". AudiologyOnline Interview, www.audiologyonline.com. December 9, 2002.

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• Any sport that comes from Scotland is good!

  Leslie Nielsen

  Sports, Hockey, Scotland

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• It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!

  Leslie Nielsen

  Long, Important, Hearing

  "Interview with Leslie Nielsen Actor and Comedian". AudiologyOnline Interview, www.audiologyonline.com. December 9, 2002.

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• In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Strong, Mean, Guy

  Source: www.mrmovietimes.com

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• I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Dream, Doors, Insecurity

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• I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Stars, Giving, Mind

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• I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

  Leslie Nielsen

  Brother, Father, Two

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• I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Air, Beverly Hills, Actors

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• I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Character, Insecure, Intelligent

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• I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Home, Found, Frank

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