- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
- Nov 07, 2020
You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020