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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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It’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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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