I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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