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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
- Political Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Political Science major.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Spinal Tap' began as a mock rock band that we four - Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and myself - developed for an appearance on a TV pilot at the end of the 1970s. On our own initiative, we wrote and recorded most of the songs and performed them live in several music clubs around L.A. before any cameras rolled.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right-wingness of Fox is basically the news channel. I don't think the broadcast network has any politics at all. It's sub-political at best.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do stretches every morning and serious yoga. Not the hot, sweaty type - I don't believe yoga is calisthenics in fancy pants. I practise a variant of hatha yoga.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to do a regular sitcom, because I'd be incredibly bored doing the same character week in, week out. But the beauty of 'The Simpsons' is that it's 15, 16, 17 characters. It's the variety that keeps it interesting. And hey, they're all my children.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources that a city of that size can offer. I also believe I don't have to sacrifice all of my standards for human behavior to avail myself of them.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character on a sitcom is - if you're doing one thing all the time, the audience is going to come up to you and say the one thing all the time.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Leave It To Beaver' is a fairly famous show in America, but I don't think it travelled. It was one of those typical '50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the problems with 'SNL' is that, if you tried to adlib, the director would put you off camera and off the mic, so only you would know that you ever did it. The director always directed to the script; he wasn't listening to what you were doing. He was calling shots whilst looking at the page.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bryce Canyon isn't as famous as the Grand Canyon, but it is just incredible - nothing compares to it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or L.A. - to become stars or to get rich - they play because they've got to. It's in the streets, in their family, in their blood.
- Absolute Power Corrupts
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- Nov 07, 2020
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
- Friday
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- Nov 07, 2020