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" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "

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" The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. "

" While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. "

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" My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are. "

" I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. "

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" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "

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" I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. "

" The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. "

" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "

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" When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. "

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" Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. "

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" People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. "

" No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. "

" There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect. "

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