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"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."
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"I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards."
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"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy."
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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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"Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory."
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"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
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"I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star."
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"The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands."
Difference
"Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister."
Sister
"I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded."
Love
"Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms."
First
"I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars."
Work
"I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life."
Life
"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."
Work
"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."
American
"You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse."
Time
"You're at the top of your game if you do comedy."
Comedy
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