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“The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!”
— As Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk (1979)
“You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.”
— As Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr in The Man with Two Brains (1983)
“Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?”
— As Harris K. Telemacher in L.A. Story (1991)
“Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman — it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.”
— Hosting the 73rd Academy Awards (2001) [14:42]
“It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.”
— After Moore's speech at the 75th Academy Awards, in 2003.
“People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director."”
— Introducing the film editing award at the Oscars.

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