Abe Burrows Quotes
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
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You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
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David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.
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I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
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You are so funny to ask me about 'The Look'. I've been asked many times, and I really am not sure what anyone means.
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That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!
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Let's set aside our political and ideological differences and take a moment to love our families, hug our children, parents and grandparents and through love and respect, strengthen the bonds that made us the greatest nation on Earth.
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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
