Harvey Korman Quotes

Harvey Korman (15)

Birth:	15th February, 1927
Death:	29th May, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer

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• I’m not a star.

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• You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don’t have that. I’m a banana.

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• You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It’s got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

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• They say it’s good but I didn’t know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I’m truly extraordinary.

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• Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.

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• I wish there was something that – I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it’s hard for me.

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• I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

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• I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

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• I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

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• I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

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• Funny is when you’re serious.

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• But there’s a lot of 50′s and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30′s that grew up with us.

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• And it’s tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

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• And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can’t think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

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• Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That’s a very interesting concept.

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