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Thomas Patrick Lennon (born August 9, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director known as a cast member on MTV's The State, for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911! and as Felix Unger on the CBS series The Odd Couple. He is the writing partner of Robert Ben Garant.

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I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

Actors, Character, Characters, Shows, Tell

The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.

Best Things, Cold, Happened, Majors, Week

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Character, Good, Stories, Teach, Think, Thinking

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

Laughing, Old, Old School, School, Way

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world. . . it's awesome.

Best Job, Jobs, Movies, Studio, Writing

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

Day, Lines, Long, Stars, Stressful

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

Executive, People, Producers, Six, Three, Two

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Guaranteed, Make, Vague, Way

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Bell, Bells, Curves, Littles, Studio, Take

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

Done, Draft, Hate, Scripts, See

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

Funny Things, Improvise, Looks, Scene, Things

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

Bought, Firsts, My Own, Record, Records, Rio

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Bad Movies, Happens, Hollywood, Nobody

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

Entertainment, Impossibility, Make, Opportunity, Waiting

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.

Compelled, Laptops, Needs, Probably, Time, Writing

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Great Things, People, Plans, Thing, Work

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

Passion, Project, Projects, Write, Writing

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

Guy, Passing, People, Reputation, Robert, Scripts

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

Answer, Answers, Made, Marketing, Movie, Vetted

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

Littles, Mozart, Novels, Salieri, Way, Writing

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