Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
Abbi Jacobson -
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 -
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
Zooey Deschanel -
I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
Tamron Hall -
I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
Rachael Harris
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
Carl Reiner -
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
Ice Cube -
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.
T. J. Miller -
The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
Hari Kondabolu -
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
Eddie Izzard -
We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
Bassem Youssef
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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 -
I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
Adam McKay -
I don't like piano solos.
Warren Zevon -
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 -
I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
Sam Kinison -
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
Hank Azaria
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When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
Jared Kushner -
Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
Daniel Kaluuya -
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
Christine Flores -
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
Cheryl Hines -
None of my comedy depended on looks. I never did tons of fat jokes.
Lisa Lampanelli