Andy Kindler Quotes
The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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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.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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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.
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.
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Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.
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She described herself as happy. This diagnosis did not come from any welling up of joy inside herself. It came from the observed fact, looking at herself objectively, that whenever she decided she wanted something she always got it, and what other definition of happiness could there be?
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
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The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.
