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"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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"Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters."

"I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny."

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade."

"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."

"Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good."

"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."

"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."

"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."
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"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2."

"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."

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

"I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh."

"I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen."
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