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Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

~Harry Shearer

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I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources that a city of that size can offer. I also believe I don't have to sacrifice all of my standards for human behavior to avail myself of them.

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My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too.

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I'll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge.

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I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.

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Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

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I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil.

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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.

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I'm lucky that I can walk down the street, and maybe one person will recognise me from 'The Simpsons,' and another person will recognise me from 'Spinal Tap,' and it's always surprising.

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I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character on a sitcom is - if you're doing one thing all the time, the audience is going to come up to you and say the one thing all the time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 23rd, 1943

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