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" So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious. "

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" Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic. "

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" As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!' "

" I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess. "

" My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. "

" A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own. "

" I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain. "

" Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails. "

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" The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it. "

" As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people. "

" When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did. "

" One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good. "

" At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive. "

" The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not. "

" You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off. "

" Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements. "

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" I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident. "

" Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours. "

" I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. "

" Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys. "

" Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it. "

" We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. "

" What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is. "

" For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness. "

" In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh. "

" Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is a little better - but not put you down or just perplex you in the process. "

" Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means. "

" The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen. "

" I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything. "

" At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey. "

" Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward. "