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" I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia. "
Robin Williams
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" Reality: What a concept! "
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" I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people. "
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" I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time. "
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" People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. "
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" Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah. "
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" I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops. "
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" In America they really do mythologise people when they die. "
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" If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. "
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" I love kids, but they are a tough audience. "
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" I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. "
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" I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person. "
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" I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance. "
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" One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. "
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" I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. "
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" Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money. "
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" It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work. "
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" I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing. "
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" The idea of having a steady job is appealing. "
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" For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. "
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" You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. "
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" When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?' "
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" Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason. "
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" Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier. "
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