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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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"But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake."
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"I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this."
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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
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"I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians."
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"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction."
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"You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians."
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"That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50."
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"My whole act is confession."
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"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
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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."
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"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
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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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"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
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"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
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"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
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"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."
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"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."
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