I don’t think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn’t an actor who can just do one thing.
ADAM PALLYPeople, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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You kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.
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He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he’s such a huge gay person.
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I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.
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Eventually I got the call for ‘Iron Man,’ and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room
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Well, you can’t improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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It was videotaped, and I’m sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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Anytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who’s going to do what’s written.
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And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I think it’s important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It’s been great in its aspirations.
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At around 19 I realized that I really didn’t have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear ‘The Stranger.’ ‘You May Be Right’ may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.
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My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.
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I love Obama. He’s my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.
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