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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
~ Richard Lewis
Being
Being Famous
Famous
I Love
Love
Say
Something
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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
~ Richard Lewis
Analyst
Back
Because
Behind
Help
I Quit
Me
Quit
Therapy
Trying
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Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
~ Richard Lewis
Call
Duck
Most
Some
Sort
Texans
Think
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My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
~ Richard Lewis
About
Grandmother
Jewish
Once
She
Six
Things
Used
Worry
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When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
~ Richard Lewis
Days
Glorious
Half
Life
Love
Most
Two
You
Your
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I certainly wouldn't be a dental hygienist - they should get the Medal of Honor just to look at people's gums.
~ Richard Lewis
Certainly
Dental
Get
Honor
Just
Look
Medal
People
Should
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I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
~ Richard Lewis
Always
Because
Close
Ever
Family
Feel
Felt
Never
Real
Right
Wrong
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I know what my sweet spot has been. It's personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.
~ Richard Lewis
Been
Dysfunction
Family
Fear
Has-Been
Intimacy
Know
Myself
Onstage
Personal
Personal Stuff
Psychology
Spot
Stuff
Sweet
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I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.
~ Richard Lewis
About
Anything
Arts
Came
David
Even
Gave
Got
House
Just
Larry
Much
Never
Old
Set
Showing
Showing Up
Since
Think
Thought
Up
Years
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I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
~ Richard Lewis
Because
Humor
Never
People
Seeing
Tell
Wanted
Were
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I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk off the stage, people know who I really am. I'm not saying it's great comedy, cool comedy or better comedy - but that's what I do, and I do it first for myself.
~ Richard Lewis
Am
Better
Comedy
Cool
Feel
First
Go
Great
Know
Me
Myself
Off
People
Read
Realize
Really
Saying
Somewhere
Stage
Walk
Who
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I was 23, and all sorts of people were coming in and out and watching me, like Steve Allen and Bette Midler. David Brenner certainly took me under his wing. To drive home to my little dump in New Jersey often knowing that Steve Allen said, 'You got it' - that validation kept me going in a big, big way.
~ Richard Lewis
Allen
Bette
Big
Big Way
Certainly
Coming
David
Drive
Dump
Going
Got
His
Home
Jersey
Kept
Knowing
Like
Little
Me
New
New Jersey
Often
Out
People
Said
Sort
Steve
Took
Validation
Watching
Way
Were
Wing
You
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I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.
~ Richard Lewis
Alone
Anxiety
Comfortable
Felt
Front
Laugh
Less
More
Reason
Relatives
Same
Still
Strangers
Than
Way
Would
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If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.
~ Richard Lewis
Any
Anybody
Anywhere
Art
Arts
Because
Better
Business
Business People
Care
Could
Dealing
Devote
Expect
Get
Guarantee
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Joke
Less
Morning
Nothing
Passion
People
Strictly
Sympathy
The Hardest Thing
Thing
Up
Want
Who
Writing
You
Your
Yourself
Zero
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I'm 70; I'm just glad I'm on top of the ground. Honest to God.
~ Richard Lewis
Glad
God
Ground
Honest
Just
Top
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I'm psyched-up when I do radio. I can reach hundreds of thousands of people in a market. And way psyched-up when I'm on television. For people not to take it seriously is foolish.
~ Richard Lewis
Foolish
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
I Can
Market
People
Radio
Reach
Seriously
Take
Television
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Way
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My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.
~ Richard Lewis
Act
Always
Bad
Bad Day
Before
Day
Pray
Progress
Show
Work
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My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.
~ Richard Lewis
Family
Meant
Own
Well
Were
World
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My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.
~ Richard Lewis
About
Association
Brain
Everything
Example
Feels
For Example
Free
How
Humor
Lewis
Lot
Richard
Something
Storyteller
Talk
Through
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My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.
~ Richard Lewis
Level
Performance
Risen
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29 June, 1947
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