"I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away."
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"I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines."
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"I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy."
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"I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book."
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"Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance."
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"As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose."
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"It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale."
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"The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron."
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"I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up."
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"It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man."
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"As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone."
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"I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time."
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"There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world."
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"Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours."
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"Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself."
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"There are few takers for the quiet heart."
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"With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious."
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"Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women."
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"She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies."
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"I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it."
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