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"My whole act is confession."
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"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)."
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy."
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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
Love


"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
Comedians


"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."
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"My whole act is confession."
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"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago."
Smoking


"While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun."
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"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."
People


"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
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"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
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"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
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