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.
ADAM MCKAYMy mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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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.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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