Phil Hartman Quotes

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

Phil Hartman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 24, 1948 - May 28, 1998

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I was a Brownie Scout mother.

Joan Rivers

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What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.

Matthew Reilly

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I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.

Anna Faris

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I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Michael C. Hall

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I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

Robert De Niro

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Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

Martine Syms

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Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

Luke Kirby

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There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Lucy Larcom

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Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Allen Klein

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My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

Noel Fielding

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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

James Taylor

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