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America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Born
#Comedy
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Live
#Movies
#New
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Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Animals
#Like
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#People
I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Humor
#Life
#Need
#Private Life
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Jokes
#Music
#Things
#Two
Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
- Gad Elmaleh
#America
#Comedy
#Either
#Laugh
#Serious
When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Challenge
#Point
#Say
#Yourself
Everywhere I go in America, when they learn I'm from France, the first thing they ask me is if I'm a huge Jerry Lewis fan. I've never been able to figure that out.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Fan
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#Never
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Go
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
- Gad Elmaleh
#Life
#Me
#Professional
#Sex
#True
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
- Gad Elmaleh
#Immigrant
#Me
#Name
#Reality
#Success
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
- Gad Elmaleh
#Comedy
#Germany
#Opposite
#Words
#World
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
- Gad Elmaleh
#Comedy
#Laugh
#Passion
#People
#Real
My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.
- Gad Elmaleh
#Comedy
#Look
#New
#People
#View
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
- Gad Elmaleh
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#Famous
#Life
#Me
#My Life
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