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Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
Harvey Korman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
Harvey Korman
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Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
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I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
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