Phil Hartman Quotes (22 Quotes)


    I should have been a general a long time ago instead of shining a seat with my ass in Washington D.C. But, thanks to a certain master sergeant, I had a career reversal 20 years ago,

    The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

    Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

    I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

    Wonderful Canadian family who gave me free Canadian Scotch daily,


    I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

    It was literally a situation where you felt the most unbridled glory and the most excruciating emotional agony. What's the line -- laugh all your laughter, cry all your tears And revel in the glory of it all,

    What we can do is try to encourage the idea that the East Village is as much a place as a state of mind ... So hopefully the community can be understood by anyone with the right attitude, be they from Hoboken or Tokyo.

    A master sergeant in the Army is in danger of losing his lavish lifestyle when a Pentagon official threatens to close Fort Baxter,

    I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

    One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

    Howl has certainly proved that the East Village sense of community has survived intact,

    As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

    For the first time in 19 years we'll be able to perform on our own stage instead of some place else.

    After working in the corporate world of advertising and graphic design, I know how hard the average person works, because I've been there.

    It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

    I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

    There's been a lot of development in the neighborhood, a lot of gentrification, a lot of artists have been forced out, a lot of venues have been closed down, and we really wanted to assert the fact that we're still here and there's still amazing stuff going on down here. The festival is simultaneously looking back at this great cultural legacy, but looking forward because we want to create opportunities for the next generation of visionaries to flourish right here.

    I worked at first in a music store, and soon enough found myself hanging out with people like Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine singer from 70s punk-band Television.

    I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

    It's a reward for the whole music department and community because we've been able to put this together.

    But what if our Internet was down What if we lost our building and had to set up in a school gymnasium We could get computers, but we couldn't get computers with the configuration settings we need in a timely manner. And if we can't set up our medical records data, we can't see patients, which means we're in trouble, especially in a disaster scenario.


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