Phil Hartman Quotes
I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
