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.
Adam McKay -
It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
Nathan Fielder -
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 -
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
Bob Saget -
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 -
I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
Dave Filoni
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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.
Colin Firth -
Comedy can't be about continuous success.
Martin Freeman -
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 -
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 -
I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
David Walliams -
I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
Linda Fiorentino
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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.
Dave Attell -
'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 -
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.
Don Scardino -
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain -
I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason, which is that in college I was in an improv comedy group, and we did musical improv.
Allison Williams -
First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.
Peter Baynham
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I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.
Julia Roberts -
Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.
P. C. Cast -
It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.
Douglas Alexander -
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe