Harvey Korman Quotes

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• Tape Seinfeld for me.
• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking…
• And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and…
• You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.
• Funny is when you're serious.
• I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
• I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
• Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
• I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
• I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
• Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
• And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and…
• 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 with us.
• I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of…
• I'm not a star.
• They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me,…
• You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and…

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