Harry Shearer Quotes

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Harry Shearer

Politics, Moral, Looking

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer

Nothing, Deadlines, Thrive

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

Power, Pure, Corrupts

Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here.
Harry Shearer

Country, Before, Here

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
Harry Shearer

Revolution, Until, Film

I was a Political Science major.
Harry Shearer

Science, Political, Major

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
Harry Shearer

School, Two, Year

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
Harry Shearer

Show, Leave, Since

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
Harry Shearer

Good, Reason, Off

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
Harry Shearer

Time, Parents, Thought

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
Harry Shearer

After, Pictures, Tap

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
Harry Shearer

Remember, Last, Anyone

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.
Harry Shearer

Around, Show, Loved

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
Harry Shearer

Few, Late, Feature

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
Harry Shearer

Art, Alone, Try

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
Harry Shearer

Time, Waiting, Movie

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
Harry Shearer

Night, Find, Another

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
Harry Shearer

Real, Acting, Voice

You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
Harry Shearer

Home, Night, Easy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 23, 1943

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