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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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