Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Phil Hartman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actor Phil Hartman.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Philip Edward Hartman was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and his family moved to the United States when he was ten years old. After graduating from California State University, Northridge with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands including Poco and America. In 1975, he joined the comedy group The Groundlings, where he helped Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman. Hartman co-wrote the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show Pee-wee's Playhouse.

Canadian - Actor | September 24, 1948 - May 28, 1998

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As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

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I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

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My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.'

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I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young, the lead singer of the band, said, 'I want you to draw a horse for the song 'Legend,' which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.'

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Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

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It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.

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I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.

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I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

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I'm a really big fan of Bill Murray.

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One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

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I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

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The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

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'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.

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It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

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I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

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Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

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