Jerry Zucker Quotes
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.
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My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.
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I love to work.
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It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.
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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
