Adam McKay Quotes
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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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.
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New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
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What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
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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.
