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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Back Class Half Last
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Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

Am Artistic Creative Groupies
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Approach Bomb Fear Got
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One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

Amazing Being Ended Film
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

Been Industry Ladder Nails
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Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

Choosing Deeper Dudes End
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

Follow Get How Impulse
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Audience Based Different Even
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

Amount Certain Company Dinner
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I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

About Complain Even Life
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I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Always New Onstage Out
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My motto is: more good times.
Good Good Times More Motto
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

Age Any Decide Feel
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Felt Irresistible Life Makes
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Chance Everything Everywhere Go
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If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

Actually Anew Because Close
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I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

Car Drive Enjoy Gonna
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Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
Being Enough Go Hand
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I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Act Like Write
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There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

Around Bath Call External
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I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Did
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If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

Actually Because Come Could
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

About Actor Adult Confirmed
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I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Because Conversations Day Every
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The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

Card Chicken Corporation Fried
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Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'

Afraid Anyway Comedians Friends
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I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

About Airport Comedy Cynical
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If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
Comedic Funny Going Laugh
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When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.
Album Any Material Out
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As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting Draw Imaginative Know
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Acting Actor Any Beyond
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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Acting Always Any Doing
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I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

Been Had Hometown Imagine
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I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.
Bugs Bunny Deep Down
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I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
Behind Better Creative Just
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Some want to be who they believe they should be. But can’t be who they want to be because they won’t let go of a strand of who they were, which made them who they are and which can’t make them who they should be.

Believe Want Strand
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…It’s not so much to say I am who I am. It’s everything to say I want to be who I should be. The journey of self-discovery is always a Lifetime Project.

I am Everything Journey Lifetime
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When you get to the top, there would be others there who had been enjoying the view before you came and would suddenly want to see if your corner is cooler than theirs.

Get to Enjoying Corner Cooler
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There is no greater recompense for delayed rewards than the joy of fulfilled expectations.
Greater recompensea Delayed Joy
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Imbibe the values of integrity, honesty, hard work and loyalty and see what those virtues in your workplace will do for you as you develop your capacity.

Imbibe Value Integrity Honesty
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When storms rage, know when to stay safe, when to rage back and when to just chill.

Storm rage Stay safe Just chill
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By the way, a smile a day won’t kill you. Find it in your heart to smile. The real deep smile from the heart.
A smile Won't kill Real deep
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Add VALUE. Give VALUE. Groom VALUE. Birth VALUE.
Add value Groom Birth
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At the early stages of my career as a creative, I understood that the essence of my gifts is to impact on society; to add value to lives through my works.

Early stage Career Essence Gift
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Read, people, read. Develop yourselves. Read beyond click-bait headlines. Read.
Read People Develop Beyond
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Move your mountains. Ride your storms. Calm the Raging Seas. And wait…see…accept… And Be. Just Be.

Move Mountains Calm Accept
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Be true to yourself… And be useful to the journey. Busyness does not mean effectiveness. Things don’t end wrong… But starts wrong.

True Yourself Journey Busyness
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The problem with Nigeria is not corruption but wickedness… there’s corruption everywhere in the world. Wickedness is when you take money from your country to strengthen another economy…and your people lack basic amenities and live in abject poverty.

Problem Corruption Wickedness World
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Ultimately we are defined as homo sapiens by the way we love… Love is the greatest… Let’s live great!

Ultimately Defined We love Greatest
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I approach every job as the last thing I’ll do on earth…

Approach Every job On earth
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