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I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby. — Adam McKay

Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle. — Adam McKay

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay

My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me. — Adam McKay

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial. — Adam McKay

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music. — Adam McKay

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie. — Adam McKay

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs. — Adam McKay

It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents? — Adam McKay

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny. — Adam McKay

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made. — Adam McKay

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds. — Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander. — Adam McKay

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite. — Adam McKay

I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff. — Adam McKay

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster. — Adam McKay

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke. — Adam McKay

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache. — Adam McKay

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort. — Adam McKay

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. — Adam McKay

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean. — Adam McKay

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews. — Adam McKay

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something. — Adam McKay

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred. — Adam McKay

I love Paul Rudd. — Adam McKay

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it. — Adam McKay

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow. — Adam McKay

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything. — Adam McKay

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning. — Adam McKay

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be. — Adam McKay

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money. — Adam McKay

After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something. — Adam McKay

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything. — Adam McKay

I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party. — Adam McKay

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds. — Adam McKay

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone. — Adam McKay

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school. — Adam McKay

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom. — Adam McKay

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. — Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take. — Adam McKay

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it. — Adam McKay

Tom Brokaw was never young. — Adam McKay

Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people. — Adam McKay

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing. — Adam McKay

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave. — Adam McKay

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press. — Adam McKay

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?' — Adam McKay

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it. — Adam McKay

Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot. — Adam McKay

Creative freedom is a huge carrot. — Adam McKay

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis. — Adam McKay

I always give myself a little part in every movie. — Adam McKay

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time. — Adam McKay

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over. — Adam McKay

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. — Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less. — Adam McKay

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques. — Adam McKay

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful. — Adam McKay

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens. — Adam McKay

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma. — Adam McKay

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way. — Adam McKay

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven. — Adam McKay

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them. — Adam McKay

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom. — Adam McKay

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky. — Adam McKay

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can. — Adam McKay

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit. — Adam McKay

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair. — Adam McKay

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver. — Adam McKay

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around. — Adam McKay

Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it. — Adam McKay

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is ... whatever. I don't care about that. — Adam McKay

There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent. — Adam McKay

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film — Adam McKay

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth. — Adam McKay

You're not a slave to those test audiences. — Adam McKay

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better. — Adam McKay

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff. — Adam McKay

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it. — Adam McKay

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good. — Adam McKay

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing. — Adam McKay

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?' — Adam McKay

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster. — Adam McKay

The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion. — Adam McKay

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article. — Adam McKay

I love action movies. — Adam McKay

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that. — Adam McKay

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it. — Adam McKay

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that. — Adam McKay

There's nothing more American than movies. — Adam McKay

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is. — Adam McKay

Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry. — Adam McKay

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.' — Adam McKay

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist. — Adam McKay

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever. — Adam McKay

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left. — Adam McKay

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. — Adam McKay

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there. — Adam McKay

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular. — Adam McKay

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed. — Adam McKay