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"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
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"Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things."
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"George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement."
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"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
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"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
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"I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?"
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"I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down."
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"Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about."
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"What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime."
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"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."
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"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."
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"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."
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"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
Acting
"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
People
"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
Beginning
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
Television
"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
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"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
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"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way."
Society
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
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