Comedy Quotes
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I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.
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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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So much of comedy starting out is you just to have to fake being in control because there is nothing less funny than someone on stage who does not seem to be driving the ship. That is the room; that is the collective experience. If the person in the middle of it doesn’t seem in control, then it all goes off the rails.
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I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.
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I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.
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Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.
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You can never look that tough in glasses. ... You never see somebody push up their glasses and say, "I'm gonna kick your ass."
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I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
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I definitely think that comedy is my niche.
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I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a comedian role.
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I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world. It's the same thing with hip-hop.
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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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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
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If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
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I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.
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The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.
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I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.
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The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
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I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
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