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" I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. "
Robin Williams
Time
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Irish
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" My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly. "
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Swing
Style
" We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. "
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Had
Other
" I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there. "
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Time
" In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter. "
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Process
You
Laughter
" The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. "
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Lost
Find
Early
" Reality: What a concept! "
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Reality
" The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. "
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Eyebrows
Love
Remind
" Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? "
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Call
Funny
Moves
" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "
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Ugly
You
Done
" The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend. "
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Friend
Fun
Three
" 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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Learning
Comedy
Doing
" From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans. "
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Stars
Action
Problems
" 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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Yes
Me
Style
" The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running. "
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Does
Like
Running
" I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken. "
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Zombies
Dead
Everyone
" Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone. "
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Light
Conversation
Start
" I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice. "
Robin Williams
Believe
I Believe
Ice
" You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. "
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Start
You
Finish
" Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier. "
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You
Winning
Things
" You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. "
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You
Madness
Lose
" I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. "
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Great
Dark
Think
" You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. "
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Dangerous
You
People
" 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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Anger
Yourself
You
" 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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Love
Mother
Me
" In America they really do mythologise people when they die. "
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Really
Die
People
" Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. "
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Canada
Party
Over
" I love kids, but they are a tough audience. "
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Audience
I Love
Kids
" When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work. "
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Find
Home
Juilliard
" The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything. "
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Take
You
Skills