Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe

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• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• 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
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Dream
  • Comedy

• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Comedy

• I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Age
  • Comedy
  • Singing

• Talking Heads were a big influence on my comedy. For David Byrne, every album had to be different. With 'Portlandia,' every season has to be different. You gotta reinvent the look, all of it.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Different
  • Comedy

• About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Movie
  • Comedy
  • Door

• In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • High
  • Comedy
  • Wind

• I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.

  

  Dave Filoni
  • Done
  • Action
  • Comedy

• I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.

  

  Colin Firth
  • High
  • Science
  • Comedy

• Comedy can't be about continuous success.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Success
  • Comedy

• I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Black
  • Comedy
  • Style

• I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

  

  Daniela Bobadilla
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

  

  David Walliams
  • Comedy

• I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

  

  Linda Fiorentino
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

  

  Dave Attell
  • Up
  • Comedy

• '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Experience
  • True
  • Comedy

• Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my life, you'll force me to play Rockton and lock you up in my dark, forbidding manor while I have my wicked way with you." That sounds perfectly awful,"she said gazing at the man she loved. "How soon can we start?

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Hard
  • Lines

• When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Hours
  • Tragic

• Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Life
  • Popcorn
  • Supper

• Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Comedy
  • Knows
  • Littles