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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

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The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

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I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

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The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

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Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

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Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

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We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

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