"It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it."
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"I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself."
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"Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity.""
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"A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond."
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"Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn."
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"Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm."
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"You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours."
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"There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling."
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"It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones."
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"I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life."
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"I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night."
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"I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words."
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"I am a wild and crazy guy!"
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"Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled."
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"I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair."
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"With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good."
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"...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums."
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"A day with out sun shine is like..........night"
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"They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes."
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"I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life."
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