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Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. ”
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. ”
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. ”
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ”
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. ”
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. ”
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. ”
I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80. ”
I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries. ”
I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' before I ever went to 'Johnny Carson.' At the time, that was the showcase for comics. And I couldn't believe it. ”