Allison Silverman Quotes

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  

  Lance Burton
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  • Parent
  • Feedback

• Comedy requires a lot of energy.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Energy
  • Comedy
  • Lot

• 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
  • Why
  • Words
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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
  • Love
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• I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • God
  • Bad
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• I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • Me
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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
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Context

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
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• Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
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• Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
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  • Change

• Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
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• 'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Game
  • Comedy

• Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Words

• With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Real
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• Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that before with older brothers and sisters, so it was fairly strict. The fear-of-God thing was pretty set and I blindly followed it until I reached a certain age. Then I just began questioning my belief system.

  

  Roger Alan Painter Christian Death
  • Age
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• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
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  • You
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• I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Movie
  • Voice
  • Rain

• True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Time
  • Good
  • History

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • Comedy
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