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"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
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"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game."
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
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