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"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
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"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
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"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
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"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."
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"When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control."
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"The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances."
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"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
People
"I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires."
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"Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."
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"My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre."
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"Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things."
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"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
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"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
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"What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime."
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"I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?"
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"Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about."
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"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."
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"George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement."
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"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."
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"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."
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