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"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
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"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."
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"I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name."
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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"I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment."
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"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
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"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."
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"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."
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"When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses."
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"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived."
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"If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game."
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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."
Comedy
"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."
Funny
"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."
People
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
People
"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
Comedians
"The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh."
Truth
"I'm a charming coward; I fight with words."
Fight
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