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" Exercise is the fountain of youth, I believe. "
Richard Belzer
Youth
Fountain
Exercise
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" I used to think of it as a joke that all paranoids were right. That was a joke in the '60s, but now I'm convinced that people should be paranoid reflexively - and then pare it down from there if there's any indication that they're wrong. "
Richard Belzer
People
Wrong
Think
" When I listen to a fascist, like Rush Limbaugh or Tom Delay or somebody like that, they help me define my views. I ask myself, 'Why do I feel so strongly the opposite of what that guy is saying? He's not stupid. He's evil, but why is he evil?' "
Richard Belzer
Saying
Me
Evil
" The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing. "
Richard Belzer
Me
People
Cool
" 'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different. "
Richard Belzer
Now
Culture
Black-And-White
" Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it. "
Richard Belzer
Cancer
You
Face
" I'm a huge Obama supporter. "
Richard Belzer
Huge
Obama
Supporter
" There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me. "
Richard Belzer
Children
Night
New York
" As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought. "
Richard Belzer
More
Against
Why
" I went to several public schools. I went to religious school. I was thrown out of Hebrew school, which was the final straw. They said, 'God doesn't like you anymore. Go eat pork.' "
Richard Belzer
Eat
School
Said
" My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation. "
Richard Belzer
Very
Grandmother
Generation
" I was thrown out of every school I ever went to. "
Richard Belzer
Out
Every
Ever
" The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and tragic and just strikes to the heart of our country. Here's the youngest president ever, full of hope and promise, and he made government service seem like it was dignified. "
Richard Belzer
History
Family
Service
" I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most. "
Richard Belzer
Us
Fun
Think
" I'm tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don't watch 'The Godfather' every morning when I get up and 'Goodfellas' when I go to sleep at night. But I've just always been fascinated by Russia as a country, by the Russian personality. And now Russia is literally a gangster nation. "
Richard Belzer
Personality
Tired
Sleep
" When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility. "
Richard Belzer
Dark
Kid
Very
" If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap. "
Richard Belzer
People
Saying
Truth
" You remember France, it's the country that financed the American Revolution... OK, it was in their self-interest, but still, they made it happen. Let's face it: without the French, there would be no America... in other words, without them, there is no us. "
Richard Belzer
Face
America
Revolution
" Most people cherish their very existence and try their best to live a life worth living. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in our way, we somehow hope against hope and find a way to be as life-affirming as humanly possible! How? Love! "
Richard Belzer
Live
Love
People
" In the seventies when I was struggling, I ate the same thing every day at Big Nick's Burger Joint on Broadway and 77th Street. A cottage-cheese omelette with tomatoes, French fries, rye toast, orange juice, and coffee. It was consistently the most satisfying meal I could possibly imagine. "
Richard Belzer
Orange
Coffee
Day
" As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do stand-up. When they see me onstage, it's a surprise, and it's revelatory. I'm happy because I can do my old material, so everybody wins. "
Richard Belzer
Surprise
People
Happy
" If any animal is capable of unconditional love, it is surely the canine: they are forgiving, caring, life-affirming creatures who humble us and teach us to be more human and compassionate. "
Richard Belzer
Teach
Us
Love
" Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it's a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate. "
Richard Belzer
Kind
Revolution
Together
" I secretly nurtured the idea of being in show business but was always terrified of it. I had every fear you could possibly imagine associated with performing. "
Richard Belzer
Fear
Idea
Show
" To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out. "
Richard Belzer
Grateful
Actor
Work