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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

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Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

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We find you have be careful about what you make up, because it'll come back to haunt you. I make up so much stuff, I say it's growing like a snowball.

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I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

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He's an original genius. He's kind of blazed his own trail.

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I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

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Years ago, I found that being that excited about something so commonplace, like what to wear on an airplane, was kind of engaging.

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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

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I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

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He's wildly passionate and very, very honest and smart.

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You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

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What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

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All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

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All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

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What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

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No one is any one thing.

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Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.

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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

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I always do my life around the school year. Around the middle of June, the kids are out of school and we go up to our cottage in Canada.

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I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

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I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

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I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

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David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

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This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers' lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform.

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Steve's body of work is remarkable. I know that because earlier this evening, Steve turned to me and said, 'Isn't my body of work remarkable'

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