Comedy Quotes
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I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
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My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
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My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.
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Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously.
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We have little bits of comedy throughout our films but this is like a full-on comedy. I had great time. It was fun to do a comedy and see a lot of the people I worked with on our previous films and meet some new actors. It was a good experience for me.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
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I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.
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'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
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When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.
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I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
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I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
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You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
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I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.
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People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
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But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.
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There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
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I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
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Jimmy Kimmel has proven to be a preeminent voice in comedy, with 15 seasons of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' under his belt and successfully tackling the herculean task of hosting both the Emmys and the Oscars in the same season.
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In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
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I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
