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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!

— Steve Martin As Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk (1979)

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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

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)

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)

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)

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

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