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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."
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"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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"A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it."
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"My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head."
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"Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree."
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"But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know."
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"Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out."
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"The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining."
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"I'm big on research."
Research
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
Appreciation
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."
Funny
"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
Sense
"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
Actor
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
News
"I took some time out for life."
Life
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
Love
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
Idea
"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."
Work
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