Paul Shaffer Quotes
My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.
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This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.
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If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.
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I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.
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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.
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My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.
