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
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  • 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
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• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
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  • Romantic

• 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
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• 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 think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• 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

• When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Food
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Car

• 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