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" One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. "
Robin Williams
Villains
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" A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while. "
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" Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. "
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" I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours. "
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" The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction. "
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" I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice. "
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" I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. "
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" Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. "
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" The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery. "
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" I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. "
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" There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win. "
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" Cricket is basically baseball on valium. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. "
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" The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "
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" In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity. "
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" I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia. "
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" 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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" I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. "
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" What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. "
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" I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. "
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" Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "
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" You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. "
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" When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? "
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" 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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" The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running. "
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" When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?' "
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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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