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'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.

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Will Ferrell
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 16
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