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Val Guest

"I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy."

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"I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

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

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"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

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"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

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Amber Hurdle

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

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"Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon."

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Amber Hurdle

"It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder."

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Amber Hurdle

"In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama."

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Amber Hurdle

"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."

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"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
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"At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow."
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"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond."
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"And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years."
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"Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing."
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"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."
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"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
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"Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore."
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"No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such."
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"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis."
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