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

"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."

"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."

"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."

"You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show."

"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."

"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
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