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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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 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 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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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