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Keenen Ivory Wayans

"I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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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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A.E. Samaan

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it."

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A.E. Samaan

"My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head."

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A.E. Samaan

"Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree."

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A.E. Samaan

"Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did."

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A.E. Samaan

"The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good."

Now

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"You can kind of feel when things are going to work out."

Work

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all."

Fire

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer."

Money

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused."

Control

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"Slot machines are like crack for old people."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"This is really a difficult time to be in films."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror."

Horror

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