Abe Burrows Quotes
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
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You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
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David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.
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I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
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You are so funny to ask me about 'The Look'. I've been asked many times, and I really am not sure what anyone means.
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It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
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I would like to think that I'm always honest with myself and others. I guess that's what makes me a half-decent actor.
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On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.
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I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.
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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
