The trick of 'Up' was to balance the sad stuff with the silly stuff.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up.
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.
I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
I sat there in awe that some guy overseas, trying to protect our interests, was using a silly comedy as a survival tool. My brain had an explosion. I was really moved by that.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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