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"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
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"Between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word."
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"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."
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"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."
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"I love a finished speaker I really truly do. I don't mean one who's polished I just mean one who's through."
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"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance."
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"I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."
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"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive."
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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."
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"Let your performance do the thinking."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
Love
"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
Comedians
"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."
Actor
"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago."
Smoking
"While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun."
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"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."
People
"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
Performance
"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
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"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."
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"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
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