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Shawn Wayans

"They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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Akiroq Brost

"Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."

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Akiroq Brost

"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."

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"One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all."

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Akiroq Brost

"I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports."

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"But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie."

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Shawn Wayans
"We like writing with each other; it's fun."

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Shawn Wayans
"A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character."

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Shawn Wayans
"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."

Funny

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Shawn Wayans
"We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels."

Film

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Shawn Wayans
"They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV."

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Shawn Wayans
"Now we have to hit them from a different angle."

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Shawn Wayans
"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."

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Shawn Wayans
"I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on."

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Shawn Wayans
"There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do."

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Shawn Wayans
"You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human."

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