Adam McKay Quotes
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
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I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny.
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I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
