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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
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"I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal."
People
"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
Impression
"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
Motivational
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
Work
"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity."
Life
"I just want to be myself."
Want
"I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful."
Life
"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
Want
"My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'."
First
"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe."
People
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