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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

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Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

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I wish I was better looking.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 28th, 1926

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