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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."
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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
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"There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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"I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!"
Awards


"I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might."
Character


"At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes."
Golf


"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people."
People


"I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie."
Makeup


"It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying."
Life


"I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke."
Men


"Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this."
Life


"But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973."
Now


"It's kind of fun to be sexy."
Fun
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