Shelley Berman quotes
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“As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.”
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“My whole act is confession.”
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“If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.”
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“I will always love to perform standup comedy.”
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“I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.”
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“Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.”
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“The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.”
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“My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.”
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“Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.”
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“I was an actor before becoming a comedian.”
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“The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.”
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“Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.”
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“A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.”
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“I am careful with my material and presentation.”
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“I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.”
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“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”
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“As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.”
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“The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.”
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“While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.”
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“I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.”
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“Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.”
-- Shelley Berman
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