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“If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.”

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The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

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I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around…

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I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these…

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It was a boy's name first.

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The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and…

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Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

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I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.

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One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

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There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until…

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It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for…

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When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

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Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

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My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful.

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An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

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