Phil Hartman Quotes

#1. I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Mike Myers

#2. When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

Bill Hader

#3. No one will ever be as good as Phil Hartman. He was such an amazing genius, and may be the best sketch performer of all time.

Nick Swardson

#4. Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

Joe Rogan

#5. Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.

Firoozeh Dumas

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

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

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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 is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.

Marissa Meyer

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

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#14. '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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

Joshua Reynolds

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

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#20. There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind

Napoleon Bonaparte

#21. The moon is a poem in a starry night.

Debasish Mridha

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

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

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#24. 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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#25. Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.

Janice Anderson

#26. 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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