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- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more of a people pleaser.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
- Cross Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never read the tabloids.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real people-pleaser.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020