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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
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I could never sit down and write jokes.
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I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
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I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
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Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.
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Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
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I don't have a brother in real life.
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If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
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A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.
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A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
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Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
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Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'
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Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
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You can't direct without a good crew.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'
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When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
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You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
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I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
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For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
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Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.
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