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- All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
- The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals,…
- As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
- If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special…
- The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
- The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
- I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy'…
- You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
- You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much,…
- Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
- When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
- Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
- The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
- If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
- If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not.…
- Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the…
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide