I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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