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Nixon's Genius Was That He Was Able To Portray Himself As The Toughest Of The Anti-communists, And Yet Run On A Platform That He Had A Plan To End The Vietnam War. And, Of Course, His Plan Was To Prolong It Until His Second Election - But He Didn't Tell Us That Then.

I Wasn't Playing Nixon's Satirical Stick Figure. I Was Playing Nixon The Man. As An Actor, I Felt I Had To Get To The Deeply Flawed Humanity Of The Guy.

The Theater Business Is Very Much About "hey, If You Want Our Big Blockbuster At Christmas Time, You'll Play Our Piece Of Crap In April."

I Think The British Learn Their History Through The Prism Of This Gallery Of Grotesques Known As The Royals.

Satire Is An Art Best Practiced Behind The Back Of The Intended Target. I Think Inviting Politicians On A Satirical Show Becomes A Very Big Trap. Because One Of Two Things Happen: Either You Have To Kind Of Unsharpen Your Fangs Because You Can't Be Quite As Cruel To People To Their Face As You Are Behind Their Backs... Or You Don't Defang, And Those Guests Get The Word And They Stop Coming.