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" But I didn't know much about directing a movie. "
Much
Movie
Know
" But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. "
Uncle
Aunt
Grandparents
" I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. "
Learning
Disability
I Can
" I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.' "
Health
Doctor
Problems
" I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.' "
Want
Me
Said
" I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope. "
Group
Know
Thought
" I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny. "
Him
Pain
Always
" I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee. "
Still
Wear
Bald
" Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe? "
World
Out
Came
" I still don't know much about directing a movie. "
Movie
Know
Much
" I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s. "
Early
Kind
Mean
" I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive. "
Live
Focus
Best
" I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy. "
Heartbeat
Work
Again
" Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.' "
Down
Up
You
" Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened. "
Jerry
Things
Wonderful
" Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair. "
Create
Numbers
Life
" Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory. "
Poker
Hobby
Glory
" The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. "
Greatest
Go
Pleasure
" The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. "
Necessity
Entertainment
Industry
" There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it. "
Service
Think
Than
" The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in. "
Play
Show
Manners
" The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny. "
Sense Of Humor
Funny
Me
" Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers. "
Me
Work
Son
" Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. "
New York
New
Up
" We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season. "
Season
Made
Final
" You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. "
Budget
Know
Place
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