Jackie Mason Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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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.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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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.
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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.
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One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn't there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.
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I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
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But he (Franklin Roosevelt) specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect.
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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
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Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
