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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."

"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."

"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!"

"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."

"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 haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."

"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."

"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."

"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."

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."

"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."

"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
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