The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. There are realistic elements that people obviously enjoy, but they don't necessarily want to relive the trials and tribulations of their average work day.
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BOOTSY COLLINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, b... BRIAN COX British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. MONICA BELLUCCI People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But thei... AASIF MANDVI The transgender bathroom thing - it's just so obvious that people are scared of what they don... NIKKI GLASER People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by ... CAROLYN CHUTE I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet... FRANK DILLANE So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people tha... DAVID DENMAN I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a da... TODD ENGLISH I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it... MATT DAMON There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren... NIECY NASH On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man s... CEELO GREEN There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the sa... PAGET BREWSTER The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don... MIKE NICHOLS 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'the... DJ KHALED People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned m... KATY PERRY I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitel... SEBASTIAN STAN But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash... JOSH HUTCHERSON I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl... KIRSTEN DUNST I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everyt... KEKE PALMER The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn'... O'SHEA JACKSON, JR. I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophis... VAL KILMER There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People... BILLY CRUDUP Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's ... 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KEVIN MITNICK There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and w... FRAN KRANZ Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that ... DREW CAREY Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you'... DIANNA AGRON Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, every... KELSEY GRAMMER New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neig... MIKE D Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don&... MYRTLE REED I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13... TOM CAVANAGH With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to p... 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TILMAN J. FERTITTA I give a lot of shoes away, but there are some shoes that sometimes I'm like, I don't think ... RAY ALLEN Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go... DAVID MACKENZIE There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d... ALIA BHATT
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