Phil Hartman Quotes

#1. I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

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#2. I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

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#3. I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

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#4. I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

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#5. I'm a really big fan of Bill Murray.

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#6. The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

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#7. It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.

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#8. One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

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#9. 'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.

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#10. I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

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#11. Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

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#12. It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

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#13. As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

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#14. I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.

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#15. Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

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#16. I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

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