Winston Marshall Quotes
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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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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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
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Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.
