"I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge."
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"I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. I see when people go off their material and it's actually happening in front of you and that kind of stuff excites me."
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"The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play."
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"When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets."
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"Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing."
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"I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to live differently than everyone else. That's a very attractive quality that also happens to be good for filmmaking, people that have their own point of view and aren't looking at things the same way as everyone else."
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"What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say."
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"My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things."
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"The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'"
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"I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them."
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"Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny."
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"Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby."
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"I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass."
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"I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it."
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"I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either."
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"I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle."
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"If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams"
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"There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass."
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"Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar."
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"When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people"
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