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James L. Brooks

"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"

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Donna Grant

"I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

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Donna Grant

"The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London."

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Donna Grant

"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."

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Donna Grant

"I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations."

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James L. Brooks
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."

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James L. Brooks
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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James L. Brooks
"I took some time out for life."

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James L. Brooks
"I'm big on research."

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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James L. Brooks
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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James L. Brooks
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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