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I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.

Ed Helms

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Ed Helms
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 24
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[Chickens] are very frenetic. So if you think about it and you look back in other movies, like if someone's taking a crazy bus ride somewhere and it's like, 'Oh, what makes this bus ride crazy?' There's a chicken in the aisle, or like there's a chicken in a crate. So I just think the presence of chickens makes things crazy.
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
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Who among us wouldn't rush out and buy a Pepsi if we thought it would make the Osborne's disappear?
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It's just one of those things like when you're not supposed to laugh, it makes it that much harder to stop laughing. And for some reason Zach [ Galifianakis] and I get in this feedback mood of giggling, and on the set of Hangover we just couldn't get through stuff.
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I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'
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I found myself often asking the question, Who deserves to be made fun of? Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.
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You are literally too stupid to insult.
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Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
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I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.
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That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.
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Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.
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Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.
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You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.
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Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.
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With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.
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I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.
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People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.
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You see a lot of sides of people on a movie set because it can be really taxing and to kind of go through all that together - you really get to know someone.
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