Quotes by Harry Anderson - Page 1

We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Dignity
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Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
Harry Anderson / Actor
Legalize
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There is no magic. There are only magicians.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Magicians
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Hollywood
Quarters
Rats
Belong
Quarter
Rat
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Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Art
Men
Desire
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I've always done magic as a hobby. I've done it professionally, too.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Professionally
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'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Cheers
First Step
Material
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Perception
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Thankful
Thankfulness
Very Thankful
Wall
Slamming
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I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Coppola
Escape
Francis
Title
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Wise
Fool
Stars
Trying
Touch
Even
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Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Forgiveness
Success
Wise
Stars
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Shot
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Hiking
Lunch
New Orleans
Workers
Biggest Challenge
Climb
Ladder
Orleans
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As I grow older and I don't run so fast, I'm not so eager to get myself in situations where I'm going to have to run.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Eager
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Cards
Magic
Tricks
Want
Card
Richer
Settle
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Did I run real swindles? Oh, yeah. I mean, I started as a - on the street. I did not begin as a performer. I began running the shell game.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Oh Yeah
Shell
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Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Fold
Trick
Improved
Tune
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Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Men
Morning
Waiting
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In 'Night Court,' my name is still Harry, and I'm - my best friends are still three-card monte workers, and I still have spring snakes hidden everywhere and joy buzzers, but I'm the judge.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Snakes
Spring
Workers
Harry
Hidden
Monte
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I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Rough
Hustling
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Chicago is a big town for magicians and card hustlers. So when I was very young, a fellow sat me down and taught me the Three-Card Monte. And that kind of put me in a - pointed me towards easy money.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Card
Money Me Easy
Fellow
Magicians
Monte
Pointed
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I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at street hustlers. I didn't quite make as much money as one would gambling, but it was a lot safer.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Gambling
As Much Money
Poking
Safer
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Somebody saw me on 'Cheers' and thought that I was an actor playing a part as opposed to a guy just doing what he knew. And they gave me 'Night Court.' And by the time they realized I wasn't an actor, I had already signed a five-year contract.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Time Me Night
By The Time
Cheers
Contract
Five-Year
Time Night Me
Signed
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It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Elizabethan
Fool
Insisting
Satire
Smarter
Anybody Else
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I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.
Harry Anderson / Actor
Bus
Insight
Observing
Predictable
Related
Restaurant
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