David R. Ellis Quotes
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.
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I support the homies, like Mike Jay and Hannibal Buress. And I listen to Comedy Central Radio in the car.
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I don't need to worry about being idolised.
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I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.
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Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
