Quotes by Harry Shearer

Harry Shearer

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it’s the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

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Evil

Thinking

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting ‘class warfare’ – a charge that means it’s okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it’s not all right to encourage poor people to do so.

Class

Mean

Vocabulary

A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they’re going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.

People

Scripts

Years

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You’re in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

Lines

People

Should

As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I’ve worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around ‘A Mighty Wind.’ It really was a wonderful eight years.

Eight

Kids

Years

Because I don’t do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it’s a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener’s mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

Kids

Sleep

Writing

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.

Cheesy

Guy

Politics

Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they’ve trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They’re in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

Believe

Men

Night

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

Gestures

Guy

Virtue

Here’s a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

Awkward

Ease

Guy

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Art

Awkward

Believe

Boss

Cameras

Can Do Something

Candy

Character

Cheesy

Childhood

Children

Christmas Time

Class

Clown

Collaboration

Comedy

Connections

Country

Crafts

Creation

Cutting

Desperation

Digital

Doe

Ease

Eight

Emotion

Emotional

Evil

Faster

Figures

Firsts

Flow

Friday

Gallery

Games

Gestures

Giving

Government

Growing Up

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Hardest

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Hey

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Quotes by Harry Shearer

Harry Shearer

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it’s the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they’re going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You’re in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I’ve worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around ‘A Mighty Wind.’ It really was a wonderful eight years.

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.

Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they’ve trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They’re in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

Here’s a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

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