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"He's called you, like, four times in the past week. And seriously, you should be embarrassed. I've never met anyone who has as much phone sex as you two. My eyes narrowed on her. "How do you know about the phone sex? "Duh. I pick up the phone and listen. I gaped at her."
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
"Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down."
"Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?"
"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
Explore more quotes by Horace Walpole
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
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