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"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited."
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"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change."
Change
"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it."
People
"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."
Acting
"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."
Experts
"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
God
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
Time
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
People
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
Acting
"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"
Life
"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited."
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"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."
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"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."
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"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."
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"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."
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"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."
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"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."
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"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."
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"I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy."
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"Good comedy is ageless."
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"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
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