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"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."

"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene."

"The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself."

"But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does."

"Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter."
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"Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman."

"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."

"I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian."

"I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation."

"Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!"

"There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out."
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