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  • When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

    "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.