There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYI have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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