Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAYI grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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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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