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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."

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"It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."

"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."

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"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."

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"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last."

"We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage."

"I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today."

"It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues."

"We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature."

"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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