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Quotes by Actor
"In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode."
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"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away."
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"The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it."
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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
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"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."
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"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."
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"The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work."
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"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."
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"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."
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"People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it."
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"The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House."
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"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
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"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"
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"I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste."
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"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
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"Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing."
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"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."
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"Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies."
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"Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies."
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