Harry Shearer Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  Harry Shearer

  Sleep, Kids, Writing

• You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

  Harry Shearer

  Character, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.

  Harry Shearer

  Growing Up, Character, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• [C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

  Harry Shearer

  Character, Thinking, Evil

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