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" I like guy stuff. "
Colin Quinn
Stuff
Like
Guy
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" Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type. "
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" I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. "
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" I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them. "
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" Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult. "
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" You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it. "
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Small
Small Things
" I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. "
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World
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Say
" With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. "
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You
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Live
Only
People
" I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any. "
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Think
Even
" You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. "
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Good
Funny
Writing
" For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor. "
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Friends
Always
Say
" People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper. "
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Money
Present
People
" I was a class clown. "
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Class Clown
Clown
Class
" Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it. "
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You
Days
Get
" I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. "
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Audience
Say
People Say
" Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. "
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Humanity
Great
Back
" Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. "
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Bad
Matter
Everyone
" The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. "
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Thinking
People
More
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Because
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Being
Job
Lucky
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Movies
Stuff
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Crazy
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Place
World
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Good