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"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
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"I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that."
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"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
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"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
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"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
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"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
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"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
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"I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy."
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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."
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"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
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"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
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"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."
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"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
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"Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining."
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"While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able."
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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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"Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability."
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