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I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

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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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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

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• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

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• I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.

  

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• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

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• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

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• I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

  

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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.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
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• If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Comedy requires a lot of energy.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

  

  Jackie Mason
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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.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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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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• As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

  

  Adam McKay
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• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  

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• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

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• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

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• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

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• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  

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• I often joke with my husband and say to him, 'You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That's all I know how to do.' LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn't expect too much from me.

  

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• All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

  

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• I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

  

  Larry King
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• I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

  

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• I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Comedy