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I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catho...

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

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I had two projects that fell a...

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.

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I was staying on [writer/direc...

I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, 'I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?' And I was like, 'Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something.' So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

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I don't even want to think of ...

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

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When I was growing up, This is...

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

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It's weird that people expect ...

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

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I don't think it's ever easy t...

I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

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I'm just not a naturally cheer...

I'm just not a naturally cheery person. I'm naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.

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I don't know what that weid fa...

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, 'Oh, you must have had a great childhood.'

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I recently watched that Lucie ...

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

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I think this whole celebrity w...

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

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There's a sense here in L.A. t...

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

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It's what I wanted to do with ...

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

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Success doesn't necessarily me...

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

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I was a bad student. I liked a...

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

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When you're doing a comedy and...

When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.

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I've had a very good career an...

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

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I love New York. I was sad, de...

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

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First of all, the first cut of...

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut -' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

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Paul is Starsky, and I met him...

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

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