Harvey Korman Quotes

#1. People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

Michael Haneke

#2. In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

Jason Hill

#3. Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

Harvey Korman

#4. Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Susan Vreeland

#5. Tape Seinfeld for me.

Harvey Korman

#6. My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.

Cristina Henriquez

#7. I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

Harvey Korman

#8. I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

Dalai Lama

#9. I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

Harvey Korman

#10. We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Jean Vanier

#11. 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.

Harvey Korman

#12. 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.

Harvey Korman

#13. 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.

Harvey Korman

#14. No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought..

C.S. Lewis

#15. I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

Harvey Korman

#16. Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

Sean Faris

#17. Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

Harvey Korman

#18. Be annoyed and sin not"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#19. There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

Scott Weiland

#20. People who become comedians ... come from pain, come from conflict.

Harvey Korman

#21. 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.

Harvey Korman

#22. You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Harvey Korman

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

Harvey Korman

#24. 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.

Harvey Korman

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

Harvey Korman

#26. It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Alan Greenspan

#27. Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Harvey Korman

#28. Funny is when you're serious.

Harvey Korman

#29. 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.

Harvey Korman