You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
ADAM MCKAY Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's...
ADAM MCKAY Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality t...
ADAM MCKAY David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's...
ADAM MCKAY All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
ADAM MCKAY That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because ...
ADAM MCKAY I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee i...
ADAM MCKAY Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in ...
ADAM MCKAY Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the aut...
ADAM MCKAY I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can tak...
ADAM MCKAY I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to...
ADAM MCKAY I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy....
ADAM MCKAY Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not a...
ADAM MCKAY Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAY Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAY Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do y...
ADAM MCKAY George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling ...
ADAM MCKAY For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a ...
ADAM MCKAY Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No wa...
ADAM MCKAY You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading t...
ADAM MCKAY Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to g...
ADAM MCKAY If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they ...
ADAM MCKAY 'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAY The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or lan...
ADAM MCKAY If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the follow...
ADAM MCKAY I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be...
ADAM MCKAY Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state ...
ADAM MCKAY We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; t...
ADAM MCKAY Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy...
ADAM MCKAY I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
ADAM MCKAY I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I...
ADAM MCKAY First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t...
ADAM MCKAY I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and t...
ADAM MCKAY Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
ADAM MCKAY You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billi...
ADAM MCKAY Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing p...
ADAM MCKAY Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled ...
ADAM MCKAY Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroun...
ADAM MCKAY Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your p...
ADAM MCKAY The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their vo...
ADAM MCKAY Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
ADAM MCKAY With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
ADAM MCKAY Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for...
ADAM MCKAY The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour n...
ADAM MCKAY I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you reall...
ADAM MCKAY If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably no...
ADAM MCKAY 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all exc...
ADAM MCKAY Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
ADAM MCKAY The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
ADAM MCKAY We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could...
ADAM MCKAY The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gu...
ADAM MCKAY I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be...
ADAM MCKAY White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by i...
ADAM MCKAY America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or &#...
ADAM MCKAY I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movi...
ADAM MCKAY My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
ADAM MCKAY Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to br...
ADAM MCKAY If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parod...
ADAM MCKAY Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
ADAM MCKAY As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never se...
ADAM MCKAY I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
ADAM MCKAY Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact...
ADAM MCKAY Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSN...
ADAM MCKAY I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are ac...
ADAM MCKAY I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
ADAM MCKAY I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care...
ADAM MCKAY Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
ADAM MCKAY The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big bus...
ADAM MCKAY I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
ADAM MCKAY 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen ...
ADAM MCKAY Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
ADAM MCKAY The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
ADAM MCKAY I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
ADAM MCKAY I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
ADAM MCKAY I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
ADAM MCKAY Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
ADAM MCKAY Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAY My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
ADAM MCKAY I love Paul Rudd.
ADAM MCKAY You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbel...
ADAM MCKAY You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, espe...
ADAM MCKAY There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
ADAM MCKAY For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out....
ADAM MCKAY I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
ADAM MCKAY You're not a slave to those test audiences.
ADAM MCKAY First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
ADAM MCKAY I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly diffe...
ADAM MCKAY Sequels are desperate.
ADAM MCKAY When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more politi...
ADAM MCKAY When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
ADAM MCKAY A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible...
ADAM MCKAY Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does ...
ADAM MCKAY I love action movies.
ADAM MCKAY There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
ADAM MCKAY I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and the...
ADAM MCKAY Tom Brokaw was never young.
ADAM MCKAY If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. ...
ADAM MCKAY As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAY Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
ADAM MCKAY Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
ADAM MCKAY The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine D...
ADAM MCKAY My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who&...
ADAM MCKAY It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they...
ADAM MCKAY There's nothing more American than movies.
ADAM MCKAY The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that...
ADAM MCKAY It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific new...
ADAM MCKAY It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever...
ADAM MCKAY Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-...
ADAM MCKAY If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
ADAM MCKAY It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at ...
ADAM MCKAY I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb,...
ADAM MCKAY Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys ar...
ADAM MCKAY There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
ADAM MCKAY After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a te...
ADAM MCKAY The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to fin...
ADAM MCKAY All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
ADAM MCKAY McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are...
ADAM MCKAY Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty sel...
ADAM MCKAY In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who ...
ADAM MCKAY If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet ...
ADAM MCKAY I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
ADAM MCKAY The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. ...
ADAM MCKAY The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
ADAM MCKAY You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
ADAM MCKAY I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
ADAM MCKAY For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy...
ADAM MCKAY Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
ADAM MCKAY Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's strea...
ADAM MCKAY Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the ...
ADAM MCKAY Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and pote...
ADAM MCKAY There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
ADAM MCKAY I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
ADAM MCKAY Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's tha...
ADAM MCKAY 'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does th...
ADAM MCKAY A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
ADAM MCKAY I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
ADAM MCKAY It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do som...
ADAM MCKAY I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but...
ADAM MCKAY I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
ADAM MCKAY I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what ...
ADAM MCKAY If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollar...
ADAM MCKAY There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
ADAM MCKAY Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed a...
CLAUDE MCKAY He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely under...
HILARY MCKAY I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.
NICOLE MCKAY I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honest...
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 It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old.
"More than eight," said Rose. "...
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 They arrived home again to a most peculiar sight. The small garden at the front of the Banana House ...
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