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Harvey Korman [1927-0] American

Rank: 103
Actor

Harvey Herschel Korman was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions and was also a voice artist.

Amazing, Failure

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They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.	Amazing	101
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.	Failure	102
Funny is when you're serious.		103
You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.		104
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.		105
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.		106
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.		107
And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.		108
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.		109
I'm not a star.		110
I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.		111
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.		112
I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.		113
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.		114
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.		115

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