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…

— 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…

— Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

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…

— Harry Shearer

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals…

— Harry Shearer

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform…

— Harry Shearer

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh,…

— Harry Shearer

I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.

— Harry Shearer

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

— Harry Shearer

When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,…

— Harry Shearer

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

— Harry Shearer

The right-wingness of Fox is basically the news channel. I don't think the broadcast network has any politics at all. It's sub-political…

— Harry Shearer

Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force…

— Harry Shearer