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" Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it. "
Work
Business
People
" Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share. "
World
Creative
Talent
" Bryce Canyon isn't as famous as the Grand Canyon, but it is just incredible - nothing compares to it. "
Canyon
Grand Canyon
Famous
" Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here. "
White
Boy
Way
" Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. "
You
Moral
Morals
" Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs. "
Remembering
Songs
Doing
" I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character on a sitcom is - if you're doing one thing all the time, the audience is going to come up to you and say the one thing all the time. "
Character
Doing
Thought
" I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. "
Who
I Am
Thrive
" I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources that a city of that size can offer. I also believe I don't have to sacrifice all of my standards for human behavior to avail myself of them. "
City
Love
Myself
" I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. "
Digital
Myself
Revolution
" I do stretches every morning and serious yoga. Not the hot, sweaty type - I don't believe yoga is calisthenics in fancy pants. I practise a variant of hatha yoga. "
Morning
Serious
Pants
" If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? "
Pure
You
Make
" I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil. "
Pure
Never
People
" I'll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge. "
Watch
Anything
Does
" I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts. "
See
Job
Work
" I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know. "
Never
Loss
Leave
" I'm lucky that I can walk down the street, and maybe one person will recognise me from 'The Simpsons,' and another person will recognise me from 'Spinal Tap,' and it's always surprising. "
Me
Walk
Street
" I never wanted to do a regular sitcom, because I'd be incredibly bored doing the same character week in, week out. But the beauty of 'The Simpsons' is that it's 15, 16, 17 characters. It's the variety that keeps it interesting. And hey, they're all my children. "
Children
Character
Beauty
" In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera. "
Good
Camera
Director
" I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass. "
Bass
Years
Where
" I was a Political Science major. "
Political
Political Science
Science
" I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. "
State
Two
Year
" Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that. "
Work
Trying
Normal
" My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah. "
Vacation
Parents
Three
" My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too. "
Think
Job
Funny
" My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood. "
Childhood
Parents
Time
" One of the problems with 'SNL' is that, if you tried to adlib, the director would put you off camera and off the mic, so only you would know that you ever did it. The director always directed to the script; he wasn't listening to what you were doing. He was calling shots whilst looking at the page. "
Problems
Looking
Camera
" People don't play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or L.A. - to become stars or to get rich - they play because they've got to. It's in the streets, in their family, in their blood. "
Stars
People
Music
" Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors. "
Rights
Doors
Years
" Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue. "
Roll
Change
Continue
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