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" We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world. "

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" That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out. "

" I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out. "

" 'Spinal Tap' began as a mock rock band that we four - Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and myself - developed for an appearance on a TV pilot at the end of the 1970s. On our own initiative, we wrote and recorded most of the songs and performed them live in several music clubs around L.A. before any cameras rolled. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You have to do real acting, not just do a voice. "

" Bryce Canyon isn't as famous as the Grand Canyon, but it is just incredible - nothing compares to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you. "

" If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns. "

" I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. "

" I'll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge. "

" The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure. "

" 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. "

" I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass. "

" When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. "

" Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs. "

" I was a Political Science major. "

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" Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue. "

" 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. "