Xenocrates Quotes

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

Xenocrates

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• I actually love doing comedy!

  

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• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

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• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

  

  Rachael Harris
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• I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

  

  Jackie Mason
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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.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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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.

  

  Ralph Macchio
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• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  

  Zachary Knighton
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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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
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• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
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• People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

  

  Michael Lynton
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• I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

  

  Chris Owen
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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Comedy
  • Doe
  • Tragedy