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The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

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Judd Apatow
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, Entertain me fast!
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Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
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I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.
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A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.
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I like working with people on their first movies. I think that you never get that level of effort again. And I think that most people only have a couple of amazing stories from their lives, so you're getting the best of them.
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It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.
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If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!
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One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.
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Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.
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When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.
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Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.
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I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.
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The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.
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I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: You know what I hate is ... I don't think that ever existed.
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I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.
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You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head.
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It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.
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If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.
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Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice.
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If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.
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