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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."

"I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that."

"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."

"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."

"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."

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."

"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."
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"Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor."

"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!"

"My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame."

"It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along."

"You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition."

"I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy."

"It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is."
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