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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
Leave It To Beaver’ is a fairly famous show in America, but I don’t think it travelled. It was one of those typical ’50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil. Harry Shearer Read Quote
I think I’ve ascended to the point after a lot of years where I’m kind of OK on bass. Harry Shearer Read Quote
I’ll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote