Comedy Quotes
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The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.
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The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.
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I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
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To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
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If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
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I love comedy. It's where my heart is.
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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 enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.
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I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
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Do it stand-up comedy because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.
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I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
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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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Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.
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Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
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Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.
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There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.
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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
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I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.
