Harvey Korman - biography

“Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.”

“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.”

“I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.”

“Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first.  That’s a very interesting concept.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Funny is when you’re serious.”

“I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.”

“I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on.  And that was just me.”

“I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.”

“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.”

“I’m not a star.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don’t have that.  I’m a banana.”

Harvey Korman has appeared in the following films:
Gypsy (1962)
Son of Flubber (1963)
Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Don’t Just Stand There! (1968)
The April Fools (1969)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
High Anxiety (1977)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The Flintstones (1994)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Gideon (1999)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)