"You're not just looking for laughs, but you're……" — Harry Shearer
"You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards."
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40 Quotes by Harry Shearer
Harry Shearer has 40 quotes on this site.
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
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Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
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When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does,…
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Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art…
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You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
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You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be…
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they…
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I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one…
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In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very…
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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to…
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Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public…
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More Afterwards Quotes
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one of 621 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
— Teresa of Avila
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
— Honore de Balzac
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
— Winston Churchill
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on…
— Thomas Aquinas
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