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"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
"I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that."
"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
"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."
"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."
"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."
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"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."
"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
"All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target."
"I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better."
"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."
"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts."
"Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe."
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