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Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
- Harry Shearer
#20th Century
#Alone
#Art
#Comedy
#Try
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
- Harry Shearer
#Introduction
#Repetition
#Time
#Waiting
When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
- Harry Shearer
#Cancel
#Find
#Night
#Show
#Will
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
- Harry Shearer
#Acting
#Just
#Real
#Voice
#You
You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
- Harry Shearer
#Easy
#Home
#Night
#Radio
#Way
One of the problems with 'SNL' is that, if you tried to adlib, the director would put you off camera and off the mic, so only you would know that you ever did it. The director always directed to the script; he wasn't listening to what you were doing. He was calling shots whilst looking at the page.
- Harry Shearer
#Doing
#Listening
#Looking
#Mic
#Problems
Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.
- Harry Shearer
#Entertainment
#Film
#Side
#Talent
#World
The right-wingness of Fox is basically the news channel. I don't think the broadcast network has any politics at all. It's sub-political at best.
- Harry Shearer
#Best
#Channel
#News
#Politics
#Think
Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors.
- Harry Shearer
#Doors
#Film
#Parade
#Rights
#Three
I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
- Harry Shearer
#Know
#Leave
#Loss
#Never
#Pilot
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
#Anything
#Good
#Half
#Never
#Reason
I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts.
- Harry Shearer
#Behavior
#Boring
#Love
#Real
#Work
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
- Harry Shearer
#Go
#House
#Remember
#Smartest
#White
'Spinal Tap' began as a mock rock band that we four - Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and myself - developed for an appearance on a TV pilot at the end of the 1970s. On our own initiative, we wrote and recorded most of the songs and performed them live in several music clubs around L.A. before any cameras rolled.
- Harry Shearer
#Appearance
#Live
#Music
#Myself
#Rock
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Harry Shearer
#Does
#Make
#Power Corrupts
#Power
#Pure
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
- Harry Shearer
#Always
#Cheese
#Looking
#Moral
#Politics
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