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I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

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Through, Very, Fists, Drifting

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

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Tears, Maybe, Still, Salty

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

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Happy, Night, New, Watched

I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing.

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Shape, Made, Looked, Silhouette

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

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Next, Deal, Cut, Sophomore

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

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Listening, Always, Tonight, Tonight Show

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

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Want, Instructed, Too, Resentful

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

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My Life, Comedy, Going, Journal

In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

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Beauty, Been, I Think, Dramas

It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.

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War, Run, Wear, Fills

I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically.

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Fat, Like, About, Specifically

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

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Always, Like, Show, Theaters

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

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Black, More, Vocal, Accepting

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

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Want, Like, Mine, Squash

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

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Truth, Behind, Shows, Meaning Of

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.

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Bed, Terrifying, Which, Humiliating

I'm not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan.

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Someone, Always, Fan, Marrying

I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.

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Think, Like, Needs, Prescribed

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

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Myself, Grow, Race, Neighborhood

I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah! That's how it's done!' But for me it's the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks.

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Feel, I Think, Comics, So Much Fun

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

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Practice, Other, Notes, Sit

When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.

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Star, Part, Episode, Hired

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

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By The Time, Featured, Graduated

I really think everything is fair game.

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Game, Think, Fair, Fair Game

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

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Shock, Set, Also, Offend

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

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See, Been, I Think, Context

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

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Worry, Religious, Very, Escape

My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.

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Bad, About, Dad, Hearing

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

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I Remember, Movie, Always, Disney

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

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Think, Some, I Think, Lines

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