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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Hollywood 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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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My 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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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