American - Comedian | February 8, 1942 -
What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.
Robert Klein
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I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.
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There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.
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And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
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But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.
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But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
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In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
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My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
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Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.
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So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
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The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.
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My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
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