Paul Merton 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.
Tamsin Greig -
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence -
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
Kate Christensen -
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
Zooey Deschanel -
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
Dana Carvey -
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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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
Adam G. Sevani -
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 -
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.
T. J. Miller -
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
Eddie Izzard -
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 -
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.
Garrison Keillor
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
Adam McKay -
I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
Kara Walker -
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
Hank Azaria -
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
Frances McDormand -
'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Takeshi Kitano
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Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.
Loni Love -
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
Martha Plimpton -
I won't tell you that I've never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that's bound to happen.
Carlos Ruiz -
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
Rabih Alameddine -
I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.
Ryan Sheckler -
I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
Paul Merton