I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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