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.
ADAM PALLYYou kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.
ADAM PALLYAt 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.
ADAM PALLYI love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear ‘The Stranger.’ ‘You May Be Right’ may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
ADAM PALLYAnd 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.
ADAM PALLYI 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 PALLYThere was a reason in the ’50s when communism was bubbling that there were a million zombie movies. Because that is the direct allocation.
ADAM PALLYFor my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it was the ‘Singles’ soundtrack.
ADAM PALLYI think it’s important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It’s been great in its aspirations.
ADAM PALLYI 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.
ADAM PALLYIt 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.
ADAM PALLYSo for the last two years we’ve been hearing, “Make America great again.” People go, “Well, America was never great.
ADAM PALLYEventually 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
ADAM PALLYI think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.
ADAM PALLYThat’s what I think is important to remember now and when you hear that slogan, “Make America great again.”
ADAM PALLYI moved around a lot as a kid, and when you’re always entering new places at that age,
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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