Harry Shearer Quotes

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• I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
• Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
• 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…
• 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…
• You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
• 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…
• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
• [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…
• 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…
• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director…
• 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…
• 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…
• I was a Political Science major.
• 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…
• As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world.…
• 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…
• 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…
• I was never into candy and games and clowns.
• 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…
• I'd always loved radio.

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