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The more serious the situation...

The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.

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Woody Allen is a genius. His f...

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

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My liveliness is based on an i...

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of 'Yah! Yah! Yah!' And death says, 'All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.'

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Any man's greatness is a tribu...

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, 'Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!'

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I try to give my work everythi...

I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, 'That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton.'

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Now thyself is more important ...

Now thyself is more important than 'Know thyself.

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Hope for the Best. Expect the ...

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

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That's it baby, if you've got ...

That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

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I've been taught ever since I ...

I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

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Creative people should always ...

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

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The audience got jaded, they w...

The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.

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No creative writer knows what ...

No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.

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When I was a little kid, if so...

When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say 'Oooh, they're going to die soon'. But as I get older it doesn't mean a thing. You mustn't ever give in. Never give in to thinking you're old, because you're never old. Your mind, and I tell you this and listen to me carefully, your mind is never, ever old, it's eternally young.

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Comedy is lively, comedy is jo...

Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.

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Look at Jewish history. Unreli...

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

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THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRE...

THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

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When we got to our hotel rooms...

When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

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I don't know what to say so I'...

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

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Critics can't even make music ...

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

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Everything starts with writing...

Everything starts with writing.

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