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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

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Think, I Think, Anybody, Tailor

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

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Big, Actor, Superficial, Method Actor

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

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Line, Guy, Another, Long Line

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

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Chelsea, Sure, Griffin, None

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

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Talking, Like, About, Present Tense

It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.

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Crazy, Trade, Would, Tumultuous

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

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Alone, More, Like, Priests

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

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New, Understand, Becoming, Pigeon-Holed

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

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Back, Primitive, Our, Every Time

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

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Love, Enjoy, One Aspect, Everything Else

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

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Everybody, Set, Separate, Everything Else

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

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Living, Tell, Greeks, Examined

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

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Fact, Violent, Stand-Up, Combine

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

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Like, Very, Almost, Cynical

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

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Strong, Feel, Fell, Graveyard

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.

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Think, I Think, Identify, Differ

I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

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Middle, Africa, Been, South America

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

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Think, I Think, Very, Odd

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

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Think, Ironic, I Think, Odd

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

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Mind, Hands, Toys, Masquerading

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

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Week, Broadway, Maybe, Producers

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

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Deep, Mistake, More, So Many People

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

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Think, Over, Been, Going Crazy

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

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Kid, Bad, Public School, Compared

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

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Audience, Maybe, Imagine, Comedian

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

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Beauty, Lucky, Allowed, Comedian

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

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Reason, Some, Like, Wit

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

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Movies, Never, Always, TV Shows

I was a class clown.

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Class, Class Clown, Clown

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

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Sense Of Humor, Everybody, Styles

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