Harry Shearer Quotes

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.

Harry Shearer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1943

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I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

Jenny Lawson

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You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.

John Dickerson

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I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

Steve Burton

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I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

Steve Guttenberg

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We've changed a lot of things to help certain groups of people. We widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 feet to 16 feet to make it so the big guys aren't as dominant. Well, why didn't we just say, 'You've got to learn to play against them in the post?'

Stan Van Gundy

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I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

Trip Hawkins

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As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

Troian Bellisario

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Depression is like pushing a car up a hill. It takes all my energy to push the car up the hill. I don't have any energy left to write.

Tony Earley

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If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Rodney Brooks

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That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Roberta Flack

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If it's about working out and playing basketball, I'm one of the best in the world to do it - at least two years ago. But I'm still in a space where I can play.

Chris Bosh

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