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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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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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 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.
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First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.
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Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
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Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.
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The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
