Comedy Quotes
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
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Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.
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I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
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When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.
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I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
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I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.
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How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
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T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
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I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
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I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.
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It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
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When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
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You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.
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I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.
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Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
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I always think that some percentage of feedback is going to be gendered in comedy.
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Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
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To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
