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"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."
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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill."
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"How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank."
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"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."
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"Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee."
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"We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m."
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"Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun.""
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"If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you."
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"If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it."
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"In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression."
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"I'm here today because I hated everything else."
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"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
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"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."
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"Men don't hear women."
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"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."
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"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."
Being

"If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too."
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