Complexes Quote by Harry Shearer

“I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.”

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Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

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There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of…

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We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.

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The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in…

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

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

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

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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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I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of…

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You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

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I never wanted to do a regular sitcom, because I'd be incredibly bored doing the same character week in, week out. But the beauty…

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I was never into candy and games and clowns.

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