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I love polarizing people.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
People
Polarizing
Love People I Love
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I do have a dirty sense of humor.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Dirty
Sense Of Humor
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I was trained as a straight dramatist.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Dramatist
Trained
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I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
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Unfortunately
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I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Grew Up
Legacy
Timeless
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When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Book
Shows
By The Time
Mormon
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I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Body
Channeling
Comedian
Jackie
Trapped
Years
Belt
Mason
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I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Closest
Comedian
Feels
Today
Closest Thing
Jim
Jim Carrey
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Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Jobs
Doe
People
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One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.
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America
Team
Top 10
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When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Dream
College
Imagine
Snl
Years
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Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Hollywood
Joy
Taken
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There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Brother
Differences
Years
Brothers
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One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Bigger
Time Work Movies
Favorite Movies
Work Time Movies
Park
South Park
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If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'
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Further
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When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Kids
Changing Your Life
Surreal
Tiny
Life My Life Your
Reminds
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Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Mets
Modern Family
Pilots
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In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Different
Dirty
Real
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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
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Children
Idolized
Mean
Talking
Yesterday
Me People Acting
Bringing
Meeting
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I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
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Cat
Singing
Years
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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Opportunity
Book
Cost
Mormon
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I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Camps
College
Debate
Forensics
High School
School
Speech
Time Myself Know
Call
Coach
Spent
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I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Catholic
Judaism
Raised
Religious
Spiritual
Traditional
Wife
Aspects
Celebrating
Love Wife I Am
Rituals
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Part of our goal, in the episodes moving forward, is to deepen and dimensionalize every other character, to get into their relationships with each other, expand that stuff and really sink our teeth in.
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Character
Goal
Moving
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It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Dream
Daughter
Mother
Dreams Time Me
Hopes
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When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.
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Breathing
Past
Rooms
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It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Reviews
Funny Time I Am
Enjoying
Executive
Executive Producer
Producer
Penn
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I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Chaplin
Dialogue
Figures
Powerful
Stories
Thinking
Life Amazing My Life
Asset
Buster
Physical
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When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Actors
Creative
Impulse
Three
Time Doing Know
Works
Bubble
Full
Writers
Opposed
Room
Pilot
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We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Actors
Fun
Use
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[ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.
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Character
Jumping
Way
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It's funny because The Book of Mormon is The Book of Mormon now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for South Park fans.
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Book
Fans
Years
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There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Commitment
Eyebrows
Tv Shows
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There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Eyebrows
Tv Shows
God Me Look
Commitments
God Look Me
Oh God
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My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Kids
Chaplin
Comedy
Growing Up
Likes
Mean
Obsessed
Bit
Became
Idea
Films
Idol
Jim
Jim Carrey
Other Kids
Physical
While
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It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Believed
Convention
Mormon
Park
South Park
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I think that once we get to that point where our generation is running things, I truly believe we'll look back at this time and question why we were ever so complacent withholding something as universal as the freedom of equality and marrying someone that you love.
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Running
Believe
Thinking
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I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Humor
Combat
Comedy
Divorced
Light
Mother
Powerful
Sadness
Six
Therapeutic
Young Age
Family Age Mother
Became
Saw
Laugh
Weapon
Powerful Tool
Product
Tool
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I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.
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Brilliant
Casting
Modern Family
Perfect
Wife
Family Wife Me
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Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Religion
War
Backgrounds
Bloodshed
Crisis
Deeds
Different
Good Deeds
Helping Others
Humanity
Interesting
Source
Spiritual
Together
Worst
After
Also
Brings
Cause
Coming
Help
Whether
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How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Dramatic
Hands
Scripts
Thinking
Trying
Time Me Know
Time Me See
Fail
Terribly
Mormon
Onstage
Sent
Something Else
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I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Presidential
Writing
Years
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I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Education
Carnegie
Comedy
Conservatory
Delivering
Drama
Promise
School
Shackles
Television
Training
Years
Before
Seen
Doing
Craft
Drama School
Far
Hand
Off
Plays
Taking
Thrilled
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The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Bible
Cameras
Granted
Hands
Israel
Lineage
Tribes
Tv Shows
Actual
Original
None
Trace
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Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Movie
Bullying
Commentary
Designation
Frontiers
Identity
Melissa
Okay
Weight
Reed
Certainly
Critic
Happening
Last
Mccarthy
Opened
Thief
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Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.
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Bullying
Identity
Thinking
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I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.
Josh Gad / Voice Actor
Artist
Book
Thinking
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Josh [Gad] is such an amazing improviser and is so good when the material is flowing from him that sometimes, if a written scene isn't working quite right, I'll tell him that we've got it and that he can just play. He'll blow us away with some super weird stuff and some wild things that we might use bits and pieces of in the edit, and then I'll say, "Just for good measure, let's do one more of the scripted version."
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