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.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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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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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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 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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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