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Anthony Michael Hall

"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."

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"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."

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Donna Grant

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

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Donna Grant

"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds."

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Donna Grant

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right."

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Donna Grant

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

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Donna Grant

"I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty."

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Donna Grant

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade."

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Donna Grant

"But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early."

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