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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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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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"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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"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
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"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."
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"I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss."
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"When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god."
God
"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
Comedy
"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."
Peace
"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."
Battle
"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter."
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"I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for."
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"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."
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"I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart."
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