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I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the audience roar at that one.

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I was so successful in Cleveland, and we moved to Los Angeles, and there was nothing for me to do. All of a sudden, from being a success, I was a has-been at 13.

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I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

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Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

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I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.

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When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

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I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

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I'd like to direct something at the Public.

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The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.

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My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 11th, 1932

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