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Harvey Korman

(1927–2008) Comedian United States

18 quotes in 143 categories

Harvey Korman was a comedian from the United States, best known for Crossing Over.

Quick Facts About Harvey Korman

Born: February 15, 1927
Died: May 29, 2008
Nationality: United States
Profession: Comedian
Notable works: Crossing Over

About Harvey Korman

Harvey Herschel Korman was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions. He is best remembered as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1977) for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program

Quotes by Harvey Korman

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the…

Airports

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Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

Although

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I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be…

Appreciative

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I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

Divorces

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Funny is when you're serious.

Funny

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You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got…

Asked

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Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

Building

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You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Astronomy

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Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will…

Academy

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They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the…

Amazing

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Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.

Actor

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I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

Got

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And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without…

Died

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But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up…

Boomers

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People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

Comedian

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I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

Chekhov

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I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

Chicago

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Tape Seinfeld for me.

Inspirational

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