Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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 went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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