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"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
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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 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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"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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"Money is sensual."
Money
"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."
Mother
"It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures."
Youth
"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
Comedy
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
Years
"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's."
Being
"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent."
Business
"I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny."
Funny
"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."
Funny
"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie."
War
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