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Lee Tergesen

"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."

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Asa Don Brown

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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Asa Don Brown

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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Asa Don Brown

"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."

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Asa Don Brown

"The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining."

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Asa Don Brown

"When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot."

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Asa Don Brown

"As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life."

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Lee Tergesen
"I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell."

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"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."

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"What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back."

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"I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life."

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"I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place."

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"It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season."

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"As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community."

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Lee Tergesen
"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."

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Lee Tergesen
"I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that."

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