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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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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
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"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."
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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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"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."
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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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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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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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"Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you."
Life
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
Life
"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."
People
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
Humor
"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
Life
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
Country
"We rest our case on the production numbers."
Numbers
"These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet."
Men
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."
Living
"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
Business
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