My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it’s funny, too. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote
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. Harry Shearer Read Quote