Michael Richards on:
- Home life: "I love cranking up the heater
on the pool, gettin git up to 90
degrees, and swimming around naked. A return to the womb.
Then, when
I got the bill, I said: "My god. Forget it.", now, it's better
to soak in the tub.
It's a lot cheaper".
- His best feature: "I would say that it's that
I'm really beginning to enjoy
life now...I'm reaping the harvest of putting years into
this business. Coming
into my own, where opportunities are arising. Helping me
get more at what
I can do. So my best feature comes out of that, a vitality
to create".
- His job: "I'm an eccentricity specialist".
- His hair: "It's electric. It just goes whoooom!
It's interesting. It's just took
it's own shape. It's fascinating. It is like a back-to-nature
look, isn't it?"
- Kramer: "Sometimes I feel like I'm riding
the tail of a comet. I have a pic-
ture of Kramer in my den because I look at him as a real
friend. I'm going
to miss him when he's not around".
- The coffee-table book about coffee-table: "The
Seinfeld marketing mach-
ine missed the boat by not publishing Kramer's coffee-table
book about coffee
tables. In the book, which Kramer dreams up and pitches to
Elaine's boss in
"The Cigar Store Indian" and then promates on Live with
Regis and Kathie
Lee in "The Opposite", would have made a great collectible.
"I always thought it was a great idea. The book had a nice
cover of me; I had
a pipe". Unfortunately, he left the book, who had foldout
legs that made the
book itself into a coffee table, behind when he and Jerry
went on location in
New York to see the set of Live With Regis and Kathie
Lee. "I accidentally
left it at the studio. I don't know who got it", he recalls.
"As I got into the car
I said: "Jeez, who got that book?" And no one knew. Somebody
clipped it.
Forty, fifty years from now, that'll be real collectible".
- Being recognized as Kramer: That's just a
part of the job: "They just say:
"Look, there's Kramer", they don't go: "Look, there's Michael
Richards", for-
get it. As far as I'm concerned, I am Kramer. And I should
be Kramer. I must
be Kramer. I have this responsibility to maintain that character
because these
people, they want Kramer."
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