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“If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.”
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“If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.”
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“If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.”
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“Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.”
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“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”
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“If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.”
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“I just believe in the #‎ goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.”
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“They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.”
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“The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.”
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“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.”
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“I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.”
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“Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).”
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“When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.”
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“I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.”
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“I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.”
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“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.”
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“You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.”
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“Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.”
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“There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!”
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“If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.”
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“Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!”
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“This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.”
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“I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong...with a spoon in them.”
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“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”
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“I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.”
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“I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.”
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“In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.”
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“And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.”
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