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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

"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."

"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."

"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."

"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
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"Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of."

"I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole."

"I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite."

"I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time."

"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you."

"It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9."
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