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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
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"I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this."
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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
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"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction."
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"You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians."
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"That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50."
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"I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running."
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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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"But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake."
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"I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians."
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"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."
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"So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work."
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"I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays."
Time
"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."
Movies
"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."
Being
"When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not."
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"The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium."
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"Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?"
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"Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is."
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"My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne."
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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
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