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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
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It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
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In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
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I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS
I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS
I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS
We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
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