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"Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining."
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"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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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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"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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"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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"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."
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"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."
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"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior."
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"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."
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"What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one."
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"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."
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"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
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"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
People
"Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love."
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"Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability."
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"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
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"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
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"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
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"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
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"I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years."
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"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
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