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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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"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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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

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

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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

"The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead."

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Brennan Manning

"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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Brennan Manning

"It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it."

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Brennan Manning

"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be 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."

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"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."

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

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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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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
"It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."

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"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."

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