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"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
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"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."
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"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."
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"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."
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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
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"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
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"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"
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"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
Work
"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
Acting
"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
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"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
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"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
Love
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
Performance
"People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do."
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"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
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"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
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