Adam McKay Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Ice Quotes

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, people will get huge laughs.

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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.

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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

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I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

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We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

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I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

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As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

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There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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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 effects.

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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

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I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

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