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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

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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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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

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There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

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There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

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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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

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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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Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

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