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American - Comedian November 29, 1949 - March 24, 2016

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

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Me I Am Reflection Problems

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

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Funny Time Television First Time

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

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First Guy Show Kind

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

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Myself Know Present Without

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

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Mother Man Father Men

I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

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Life Me Woman Think

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

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Nature Like Happiest Going

I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.

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Green Great Look Think

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

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Failure Business Fear Think

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

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Funny Me Sometimes Fun

I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

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Party Guy Very Much

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

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Me Way New Back

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

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Love Work Relationship Together

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

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You Hair Your Inside

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

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Love Women Together Men

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

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Brain Cell Phone Way Phone

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.

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Good Time Creativity Because

I'd like to do more acting.

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Acting More Like

Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.

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Me Party More Everyone

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

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I Am Conflict React Crisis

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

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Women Me Man Tired

Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

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Women Men Feel Special

I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

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Day Me Fight Boxing

Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.

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You People Woman End

I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

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You Mind Know Direction

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is.

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Myself Me Time Parents

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