Melina Matsoukas Quotes
I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.Melina Matsoukas
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence -
I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
T. J. Miller -
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
Gad Elmaleh -
I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
Tamron Hall -
'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.
Nancy Travis
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
Ed Helms -
Comedy requires a lot of energy.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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.
Gabriel Iglesias -
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.
Ice Cube -
My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
Jackie Mason -
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.
Omar Dorsey
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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 -
My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
Garry Shandling -
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.
Rachel Cusk -
I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
Sam Kinison -
'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
Kaitlyn Dever -
My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.
Gad Elmaleh
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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
Karen Salmansohn -
When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.
Javier Camara -
I learned about the psychology behind Elektra and that excited me. And then I read the 'Daredevil' comics, especially when they met because I wanted to get an understanding of the relationship between Elektra and Matthew.
Elodie Yung -
After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.
Jason Momoa -
I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.
Melina Matsoukas