Comedy Quotes by Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of…

— Harry Shearer

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.

— Harry Shearer

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…

— Harry Shearer

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true…

— Harry Shearer

I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school…

— Harry Shearer

I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character on a…

— Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of…

— Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

I never wanted to do a regular sitcom, because I'd be incredibly bored doing the same character week in, week out. But the beauty…

— Harry Shearer

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

— Harry Shearer

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school…

— Harry Shearer

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show -…

— Harry Shearer

My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too.

— Harry Shearer