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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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.
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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.
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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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Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.
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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
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Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
