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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler. TAMRA DAVIS I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking ... CAMERON BOYCE I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco&... TODD HAYNES Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera ... DAVID ZUCKER I met Adam Sandler through 'Saturday Night Live,' and we became friends. KEVIN NEALON My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with ... TERRY CREWS When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddi... TERRY CREWS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've g... STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would g... ADAM DEVINE I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies. ADAM SANDLER My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. A... ADAM SANDLER When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a househ... WARREN LITTLEFIELD I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in '... MIKE JUDGE Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's... ELI ROTH My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was... BETH LITTLEFORD I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by ... OMAR DORSEY I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant sta... JESSICA WILLIAMS I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, ... STEVE MARTIN I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I thi... ERIC BRAEDEN 'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You ... WESLEY MORRIS I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He... KEVIN WHATELY I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, an... ANDY KINDLER I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go t... KEVIN NEALON A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. HELEN FRANKENTHALER I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for thre... STEVEN WRIGHT I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. ... ALESSANDRA TORRESANI I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a ver... CHARLES SOULE Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me ... JOE SHUSTER 'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world ... ELVIS MITCHELL In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a ... BILLY CRYSTAL When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 2... HUGH JACKMAN I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and pe... KID ROCK As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. ... BENJAMIN BRATT I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I kn... SCOTT AUKERMAN I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will fin... GILBERT GOTTFRIED When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, w... NORM MACDONALD I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only a... FKA TWIGS I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot ... EDMUND HILLARY I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we d... KEVIN WHATELY What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis. KEVIN MCDONALD I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlestick... ELTON JOHN I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just l... STEVE MARTIN I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch '... AMANDA RIGHETTI I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's ver... MICHAEL CAINE As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?... KEEGAN ALLEN I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff'... JEN KIRKMAN I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Ab... DAVID MAZOUZ Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. ... JOY BEHAR Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real'... DAKOTA FANNING I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I ... AASIF MANDVI I don't get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. 'Oldboy' we shot Two P... SPIKE LEE Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much televisi... DARREN STAR Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working. SCARLETT JOHANSSON I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena. VIGGO MORTENSEN On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my ... KASSIE DEPAIVA La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to qua... FRED FRITH I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easi... ROBBIE WILLIAMS My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.... DAVID WALTON I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and ... DAMIAN LEWIS A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Asta... QUEEN LATIFAH There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. ... JOHNNY GALECKI This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I've worked with. Jerry's very involved... TREVOR RABIN Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dava Carvey, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell - they're all the best. KYLE MOONEY I'm universal. As much as I can get out a 'Firework' with Katy, I can get a 'Lil Fre... ESTER DEAN We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was e... TINA FEY There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry... CYNTHIA OZICK I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' w... ISABEL SANFORD I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclai... RENE RICARD It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as g... SAM ELLIOTT I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO sh... ELIZA COUPE If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the la... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
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