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"Funny is when you're serious."
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"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."
First
"And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure."
Failure
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
Actor
"Funny is when you're serious."
Funny
"I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me."
Letters
"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff."
Funny
"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago."
Chicago
"And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on."
Eating
"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."
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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."
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"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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"I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that."
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"It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear."
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"I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny."
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"Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny."
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"Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight."
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"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."
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