Steven Levitan Quotes
None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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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 love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
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My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.
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'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
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I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!
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Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
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I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
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I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
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I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.
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I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.
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None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.
