Alan Alda Quotes

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

Alan Alda

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Comedy
  • I Can
  • Where

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Me
  • Comedy

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

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Enjoy

• 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
  • Comedy
  • Thing

• I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Comedy
  • Less
  • Well Known

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

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

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Play
  • Comedy
  • Actor

• 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
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Never
  • Feel

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

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Real
  • Change

• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • Up
  • Live
  • Comedy

• A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Why
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Comedy

• I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Comedy
  • Audience
  • Said

• Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Patience

• I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

  

  David Walliams
  • Life
  • Comedy

• I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Help
  • Football
  • Player

• The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Nature
  • Society

• Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Comedy
  • Comedies
  • MASH