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• I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.

  Ed Helms

  Spring, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.

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  Woven, Narrative, Way

  "Ed Helms Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, Character Relationships, Location Shoots, Returning Characters, Concluding the Trilogy & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

  Ed Helms

  Editors, Understanding, Cameras

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.

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  Nerd, Toys, Kind

  "Q&A: Ed Helms on Nerdom and How He Almost Destroyed His Hands for Mumford & Sons". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles.

  Ed Helms

  Guy, Radio, Littles

  "Q&A: Ed Helms on Nerdom and How He Almost Destroyed His Hands for Mumford & Sons". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when I realized I wasn't going to graduate in four years unless I somehow managed to glue together all the courses I'd taken. That said, I'm really glad I did it, 'cause it was really fun, and I was able to just take whatever the hell I wanted.

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  Summer, Fun, Taken

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.

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  Country, New York, Cities

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I'm glad to always have that connection to a part of the country that doesn't really have anything to do with what I do. That said, there seems to be a lot of production drumming up in Atlanta these days. It would be kind of a dream come true to go back to Atlanta to work on a movie, but we'll see what happens.

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  Dream, Country, Atlanta

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip.

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  Sick, Thailand, May

  "Ed Helms Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, Character Relationships, Location Shoots, Returning Characters, Concluding the Trilogy & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Going into editing when I got to New York was part of that. I guess I just kind of wanted to know as much as possible. But I have a real love of the whole process, from start to finish. So right now, I fit into the acting part of the process, but I wouldn't rule anything out. I'm enamored with how the whole thing works.

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  New York, Real, Editing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.

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  Stupid, Hero, Character

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

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  Thinking, Yarn, Long

  "Ed Helms: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

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  People, Laughing, Admire

  "EMMYS: 'The Office's Ed Helms". Interview with Michael Ausiello, deadline.com. June 17, 2012.

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• As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.

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  Witty, Character, Play

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

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  Song, Hangover, Piano

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The Hangover] where we need a little bit of a breath in the narrative. You should write a song and stick it in there.' And I was like, 'Well, what should the song be about?' And he said, 'The tiger.' 'Oh, okay.' So I went off and I wrote this song. I came back and Todd and I tinkered with it a little more and then we shot it right then. It all happened in a day.

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  Song, Hangover, Writing

  Source: movies.about.com

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• With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

  Ed Helms

  Distance, Thinking, Monkeys

  "THE HANGOVER PART II On Set Interview with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Director Todd Phillips". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• People now genuinely respond to it and associate me with music. It's really fun.

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  Fun, People, Associates

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

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  Favorites Things, Firsts, My Favorite

  "Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis Talk THE HANGOVER PART III, Looking Back on the Franchise, Weirdest Moments, Vegas, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 21, 2013.

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• I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was fought, and it's just more present in the sort of psyche of the South. So I've always just been interested and sort of fascinated by [Civil War].

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  War, Thinking, Georgia

  Source: movies.about.com

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• It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, War, Passion

  Source: movies.about.com

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• [Chickens] are very frenetic. So if you think about it and you look back in other movies, like if someone's taking a crazy bus ride somewhere and it's like, 'Oh, what makes this bus ride crazy?' There's a chicken in the aisle, or like there's a chicken in a crate. So I just think the presence of chickens makes things crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Looks

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

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  Giving, Sometimes, Glad

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.

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  Thinking, Two, Chemistry

  Source: movies.about.com

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• No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.

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  Way, Chaos, Muppet

  Source: movies.about.com

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