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" You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks. "
Robin Williams
You
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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 left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. "
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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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" With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people. "
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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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" 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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" When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work. "
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" I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way. "
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" Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! "
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" In America they really do mythologise people when they die. "
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" I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. "
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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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" If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing. "
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" The idea of having a steady job is appealing. "
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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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