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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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Personal Development

"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
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Personal Development

"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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Personal Development

"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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Personal Development

"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
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Personal Development

"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."
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Personal Development

"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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Personal Development

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative."
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"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
Life

"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
Acting

"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."
Actor

"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."
God

"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."
Life

"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."
People

"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."
Acting

"Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk."
Education

"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
Genius

"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
Driving
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