American - Comedian | August 4, 1944 -
Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it's a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate.
Richard Belzer
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I'm a huge Obama supporter.
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Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.
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To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
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As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do stand-up. When they see me onstage, it's a surprise, and it's revelatory. I'm happy because I can do my old material, so everybody wins.
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There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.
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The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.
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As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.
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I used to think of it as a joke that all paranoids were right. That was a joke in the '60s, but now I'm convinced that people should be paranoid reflexively - and then pare it down from there if there's any indication that they're wrong.
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I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most.
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When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility.
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I secretly nurtured the idea of being in show business but was always terrified of it. I had every fear you could possibly imagine associated with performing.
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