Harry Shearer Quotes

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• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

  Harry Shearer

  Power, Political, Doe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

  Harry Shearer

  Inspiration, People, Desperation

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• The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

  Harry Shearer

  Maintaining, Appearance, Hardest

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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

  Thinking, Years, Stills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  World, Way, Privilege

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Cheesy, Politics

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• If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

  Harry Shearer

  Lasts, Sticks, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

  Harry Shearer

  Comedy, Creation, Faster

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

  Harry Shearer

  Character, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

  Harry Shearer

  Believe, Night, Men

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a joke." Well, why should satire be in the service of humanizing these people who are supposed to be the target of our venom and vitriol? I think that's unseemly.

  Harry Shearer

  Thinking, People, Political

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• You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

  Harry Shearer

  Real, Voice, Acting

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  School, Years, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Friday, Night, Doe

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Would Be

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• I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

  Harry Shearer

  Men, Guy, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Boss, Negative

  "Harry Shearer: The Voices in My Head". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. May 14, 2015.

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• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Harry Shearer

  Cutting, Years, Cameras

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• I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

  Harry Shearer

  Thinking, Royal, Gallery

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

  Harry Shearer

  Two, Heaven, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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

  Children, Government, Emotion

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• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  Harry Shearer

  Sleep, Kids, Writing

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• I was a Political Science major.

  Harry Shearer

  Science, Political, Political Science

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

  Harry Shearer

  Independent, Connections, Digital

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