American - Comedian | October 8, 1943 -
I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
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I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
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When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.
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There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
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Fame is a very unnatural human condition.
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When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
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I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
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If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'
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I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
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It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.
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I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
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It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.
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