Comedy Quotes
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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.
Josh Gad -
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.
Sara Paretsky
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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
Stephen Mangan -
Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe -
People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.
Judd Apatow -
I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
Michael Shannon -
In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.
Carlos Mencia -
Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
Bill Burr
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Miguel de Unamuno -
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
Carrie Brownstein -
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.
Ben Miller -
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
Tommy Lee Jones -
With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
Steve Martin -
I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
Brian Regan
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Seth MacFarlane -
As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
Ben Miller -
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
Ben Miller -
One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.
Ethan Hawke -
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
Richard Pryor -
Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
Chris Bliss
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin -
I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
Brett Gelman -
The ultimate objective of comedy is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"
Brian Regan -
Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.
Chris Bliss