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I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

- Leslie Nielsen
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I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

It was a boy's name first.

To be honest, I never, ever thought I'd ever do comedy. I was so frequently cast early on as a high-born young man with... 'problems' and, later, as a heavy, from black-hatted western villains to the corporate raider to bad cops.

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

As for honours, I've had a few along the way, and to be honest, I never expected any of them. I made a good living for decades, and that was enough; that, and maybe a good residual cheque from time to time.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

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I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.