Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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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.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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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.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.
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I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
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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.
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I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
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I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
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Comedy can't be about continuous success.
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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.
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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.
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I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
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I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
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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.
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'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.
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It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
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Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.
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I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.
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Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
