I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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 don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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