Comedy Quotes
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My comedy grows as I grow as a person.
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
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A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
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I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.
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It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
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Fear is what makes comedy funny.
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I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
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I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.
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We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.
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I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.
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I like very straight comedy.
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I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.
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When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.
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Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.
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I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
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Comedy is what keeps us alive.
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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.
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I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!
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When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were supposed to know how to act, write, and host. I thought it was all one thing. That's why it doesn't feel like I'm transitioning to acting: because in my stand-up, I do characters all the time.
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'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.
