Phil Hartman Quotes

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• Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.
• It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.
• I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.
• As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
• I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
• I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.
• I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden…
• The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night…
• I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.
• I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
• Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

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