Bill Bailey (Mark Robert Bailey) Quotes

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

Bill Bailey

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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.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• I actually love doing comedy!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Actually

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Comedy

• 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

• 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.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Dream
  • Comedy

• I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • World
  • Respect
  • Comedy

• I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • College

• I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Comedy

• Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Great
  • Comedy

• I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Good
  • Work
  • Comedy

• With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

  

  Diora Baird
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Opinion

• 'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Funny
  • Stop
  • Comedy

• The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

  

  Allison Williams
  • World
  • Live
  • Truth

• Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • Good
  • Men
  • Children

• I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Anniversary

• If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Learning
  • Doing
  • Understand

• I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

  

  Bill Bailey
  • Comedy
  • Modern
  • Vegetarian