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Richard Kind

👤 Speaker
874 total appearances

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

People ask me to sing.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

It's like I'm an improviser, but I'm not a great improviser.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

I can improvise.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

There are great singers and there are great improvisers.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

I'm very good.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

It's just in my bag of tricks.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

So I can sing a song, but I'm not great.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

But I'm very loud.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

I'm from the Ethel Merman School of Music, and that's what I do.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

Right, it's not what Hollywood wants.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

Which way did you interpret it?

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

You're talking about two teachers.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

Oh, my high school teacher.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

I went to school with a great actor named Robert Curtis Brown.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

You'd know him as the yuppie in trading places.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

Now, he's had a career that's much larger.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

But whenever I mentioned his name, that's his most famous role.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

He was a great actor.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

He is a great actor and a handsome guy.

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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

So I had my high school teacher say, you know, go go into your dad's business because Hollywood is looking for Robert.