Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes

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

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• I actually love doing comedy!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Actually

• 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

• My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• 'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • 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

• I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Comedy

• 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

• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Create

• Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Success
  • Environment
  • Immigration

• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • God
  • Church

• Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Reality

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

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Comedy
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