Benjamin Stockham Quotes
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
Bai Ling -
You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
Eddie Murphy -
I actually love doing comedy!
Felicity Jones -
Comedy requires a lot of energy.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
Natalie Zea -
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
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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 -
As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
Adam McKay -
My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
Garry Shandling -
I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
Sam Kinison
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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.
T. J. Miller -
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
Kate McKinnon -
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
Nancy Gibbs -
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
Frances McDormand -
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
Tanya Tucker -
Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
Sam Rockwell
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My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.
Paul Verhoeven -
A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.
Norm MacDonald -
I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
Niecy Nash -
I don't want anyone to ever feel they are alone and no one likes them, or to feel as insecure as I did.
Jessie James Decker -
It's so important to protect your eyes from harmful UV rays - you use SPF every morning, but you need to protect your eyes, too.
Jamie Chung -
For comedy, timing is key.
Benjamin Stockham