Matthew Weiner Quotes
If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
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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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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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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 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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'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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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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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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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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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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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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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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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
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Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
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Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.
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I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
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If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
