Adam McKay
Related CARL REINER When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR AMY POEHLER LAKE BELL I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just... PATRICIA RICHARDSON A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it... ANDY SAMBERG I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less win... MICHAEL MOSLEY There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness,... JOE FLAHERTY With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laug... BROOKE NEVIN JERRY SEINFELD JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE TAYLOR KITSCH When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting... NATALIE ZEA ELI ROTH JOHN C. REILLY I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a directi... TAMSIN GREIG Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could jus... TODD PHILLIPS Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever,... TAJ MAHAL TREVOR NOAH CHRISTOPHER WALKEN MATT DILLON It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irrespo... BILL O'REILLY It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irrespo... BILL O'REILLY AARON RODGERS BILL HADER You want to represent Christ well with doing you job, first and foremost, because that's what yo... BEN ZOBRIST Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha... NORM MACDONALD The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's ... GREG BERLANTI When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting the... COLMAN DOMINGO NADIA GIOSIA PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still fu... CONSTANCE WU ALEC BALDWIN JESSICA ST. CLAIR People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and ... J. SMITH-CAMERON JOE PERRY You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. ADRIAN EDMONDSON Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do,... HARLEY QUINN SMITH Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the un... FINN WITTROCK MARIA BARTIROMO CHRISTOPHER WALKEN When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained... CASS ELLIOT Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you'... VICTORIA OSTEEN WILL FERRELL Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER BJ THE CHICAGO KID DREW BARRYMORE There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'... CHAD HARBACH ROB DELANEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES LAURA DERN I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we trav... TREVOR MOORE AARON RODGERS VERONICA ROTH SANDRA BULLOCK TOM WAITS MARY ELLEN MARK MARCUS BUCKINGHAM I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi... PATRICK MARBER I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al... EVAN PETERS When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ... SALLY HAWKINS BO BURNHAM Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doi... ANDRE AGASSI ELISHA CUTHBERT CARMEN ELECTRA MARK WAHLBERG ADRIANNE PALICKI JASON KIDD CALVIN JOHNSON MARIA SHARAPOVA DIMEBAG DARRELL BEN STILLER When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don'... FREDDIE HIGHMORE I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER SEBASTIAN COE A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's ... LAURA BENANTI It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have ... JAMIE DORNAN ZIG ZIGLAR ANNA KENDRICK Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING SIMONE BILES IAN MCSHANE MAGGIE SMITH When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's ... ANA IVANOVIC RAY LEWIS HALSEY AMY SEDARIS NIKKI SIXX CRAIG GROESCHEL SCOTTY MCCREERY JULIANNE MOORE YARA SHAHIDI It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like... SABRINA CARPENTER If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and yo... BEVERLY LEWIS When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you ... CHRIS LILLEY JAY-Z When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their ... DANE COOK GREG BEHRENDT You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing ... PETE FOUNTAIN
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And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed a... CLAUDE MCKAY HILARY MCKAY NICOLE MCKAY JOHN MCKAY Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. PETER MCKAY I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.' CHRISTIAN MCKAY I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of... CHRISTIAN MCKAY Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and politica... CLAUDE MCKAY HILARY MCKAY Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine i... CHRISTIAN MCKAY I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up... NELLIE MCKAY She wrote to Dr. Green or Dr. Scott he was confused and asked for a phone number so they could ta... BRUCE MCKAY I don't know that this was a Nigerian scam, ... This is a mutating form of extortion that has been g... BRUCE MCKAY It's July 13 and she receives the check for $12,000 and it comes in an envelope with no return addre... BRUCE MCKAY She wrote to Dr. Green  or Dr. Scott â€â�... BRUCE MCKAY He said he had a check for $12,000 and asked that she cash it and send back $7,600 to his car hiring... BRUCE MCKAY Everyone pretty much agrees it is the best gas-rich area that we know of today. BRUCE MCKAY There's trust that goes along with that, ... From the start, Pauline was open and hospitable because... BRUCE MCKAY No one ever went broke by saying no too often. HARVEY MCKAY I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back fro... DONALD MCKAY One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, a... CHRISTIAN MCKAY Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. DAVID MCKAY I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and ... CHRISTIAN MCKAY Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f... CLAUDE MCKAY HILARY MCKAY Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f... CLAUDE MCKAY We need and want and articulate to Tony to be aggressive, because that really helps our team. We kee... RITCHIE MCKAY It appears that the lenders are prepared to do whatever they possibly can to see this project move f... BILL MCKAY You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it... NELLIE MCKAY The quarterback position is such a defenseless position when his feet are on the ground and he's thr... RICH MCKAY Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and... CLAUDE MCKAY Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles. CHRIS MCKAY Neither team really executed well tonight, but both sides played good defense. We just didn't execut... JIM MCKAY Jamie Morgan had a great shooting game tonight. She was 3-for-3 on 3-pointers. It really seems like ... JIM MCKAY Chris is one of the friendliest, nicest people you would meet anywhere. He likes people. He loves pe... JIM MCKAY Proceeds from the show go to a scholarship for performing arts students. It's the older people helpi... ALISON MCKAY We have 15 gorgeous showgirls and many surprise guests. ALISON MCKAY She's going to be who she's going to be. She's willing to take it. BEN MCKAY There is more pressure on her. She is a known figure. If she says something, it gets reported. BEN MCKAY Everything is Temporary, Everything does not stay forever. One thing that will stay with you is GOD. JASON MCKAY You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything. NELLIE MCKAY The West Bloomfield girls are just digging machines. Our girls would crank the ball, but West Bloomf... YVETTE MCKAY He could have avoided these deaths, he did not. He alone is responsible. PETER MCKAY It's sort of a crime scene investigation. There was life here. ... We've got to pull that out. CHRIS MCKAY So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill. CHRIS MCKAY We didn't come out focused enough, we weren't making smart plays. CHRIS MCKAY There are so many leaders on this team - so many quality ballplayers - we said we owed it to each ot... CHRIS MCKAY It will be a symbolic step of life from Earth, leaving Earth, and growing somewhere else. CHRIS MCKAY The work is very relevant to Mars because we know the surface of Mars is as dead as a doornail and a... CHRIS MCKAY If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost som... AMI MCKAY No matter what you do, someone always knew you would. AMI MCKAY Change always ruffles feathers. But to us, nothing is sacred. This is going to be good for us, good ... ANDY MCKAY The time is right, ANDY MCKAY If you look at our own planet Earth, for half of its history, life was microscopic. It's the first s... CHRIS MCKAY When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see... JIM MCKAY He's got a real good feel for the game, and if there's something he needs to work on, you sit there ... DAVE MCKAY He's coming along real well. He can be a complete, complete outfielder. He's playing well enough rig... DAVE MCKAY We will probably do either the east half or the west half of the road. It's difficult to put sidewal... DAVE MCKAY
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... 
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero ... 
I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the c... 
When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It reall... 
Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and g... 
When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... 
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's... 
Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed.... 
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a ... 
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny... 
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... 
I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, w... 
'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty... 
First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most... 
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone ... 
In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it ha... 
The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to... 
After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That&#... 
Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th... 
For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, ... 
It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when yo... 
It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're tryin... 
The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta... 
If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romant... 
In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that... 
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ... 
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of ... 
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respe... 
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographi... 
Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A stren... 
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare ... 
You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you&#... 
When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. 
It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But... 
I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out i... 
When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... 
You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... 
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when tha... 
With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjo... 
You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after... 
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why y... 
We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you ... 
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you ... 
Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more success... 
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y... 
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w... 
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ... 
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... 
I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be... 
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is rea... 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the ... 
I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... 
Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to ... 
I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's whe... 
I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's... 
He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely under... 
I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald. 
I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honest... 