“I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.”
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“I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.”
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“My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.”
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“I've had great success being a total idiot.”
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“What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.”
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“I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That'...”
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“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.”
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“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wan...”
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“When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9...”
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“I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.”
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“The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the r...”
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“I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of v...”
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“I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.”
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“The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.”
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“There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. I...”
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“Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything li...”
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“I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.”
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“Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.”
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“We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.”
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“Turning 90 is not for sissies.”
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“Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.”
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