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
  • Comedy
  • Play
  • 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
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• 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

• A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Comedy
  • Actor
  • Kitten

• It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Important
  • Evaluate

• Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

  

  Agatha Christie

• 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