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" Chris Guest movies are funny. "

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" I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act. "

" Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be. "

" I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world. "

" 'Birdman' has kinda... changed things. I'm not saying you won't see traditionally made movies any more. But I've had meetings with directors, and they've said it makes them rethink everything. You can hate this movie, but you have to talk about it. It's going to go down as one of the most interesting movies ever made. "

" I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone. "

" I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more. "

" I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. "

" Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. "

" High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun. "

" My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome! "

" From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. "

" My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me. "

" I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies. "

" There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. "

" Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude. "

" Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore. "

" I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch. "

" I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema. "

" I liked going to Catholic school. "

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" Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well. "

" Actors will say 'yes' to anything. "

" In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage. "

" Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry. "

" I like people-people rather than movie people. "

" People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood. "

" People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it. "

" I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive. "

" I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment. "

" There just is not one person in my family who is not funny. "