Harry Shearer Quotes - Page 2

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• Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

  Harry Shearer

  Hbo, Length, Late

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Home, Night, Rehearsal

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

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• [The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.

  Harry Shearer

  Mean, Vocabulary, Class

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• When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.

  Harry Shearer

  Growing Up, Character, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  School, Years, Two

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

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Stars, Childhood, Parent

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• To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

  Harry Shearer

  Would Be, Retro, Mighty Wind

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• I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on the country in the 1950s and 1960s - a fear Nixon rode like a endless great wave on the Pacific to high office. I'm sure, though there's no evidence of it, one of the things that rankled him down deep was that it was called McCarthyism and not Nixonism.

  Harry Shearer

  Country, Thinking, Office

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Hype, White, House

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• Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.

  Harry Shearer

  Running, War, Able

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

  Harry Shearer

  Seductive, Soul, Window

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

  Harry Shearer

  Character, Thinking, Evil

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• The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

  Harry Shearer

  Years, Giving, Able

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Two

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Lines, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

  Harry Shearer

  Ease, Venture, Solo

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Thinking, People, Collaboration

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."

  Harry Shearer

  Strong, Memories, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Harry Shearer

  Next, Sides, Used

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was never into candy and games and clowns.

  Harry Shearer

  Games, Clown, Candy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.

  Harry Shearer

  Radio

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

  Harry Shearer

  Mind, Television, Radio

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

  Harry Shearer

  Crafts, Firsts, Can Do Something

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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."

  Harry Shearer

  Play, Hey, Christmas Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.

  Harry Shearer

  Years, People, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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