"Comedy is acting out optimism."
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"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone."
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"I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music."
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"I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate."
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"After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!"
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"The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe."
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"Reality: What a concept!"
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"[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!"
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"They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it."
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"To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity."
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"If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."
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"Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny."
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"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
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"I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'"
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"You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!"
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"No man is an island; but some are peninsulas."
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"Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it."
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"If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable."
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"Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad."
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"You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian"
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