Comedy Quotes
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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
Christopher Walken -
I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
T. C. Boyle
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It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Chris Tucker -
I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
Zachary Knighton -
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
Dave Foley -
Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.
Colleen Haskell -
One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III -
My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
Gary Owens
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef -
A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.
Mark Addy -
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
Adam DeVine -
I always knew about comedy; I always loved comedy.
Leslie Jones -
I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'
Charlie Brooker -
I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.
Adam Sandler
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I love writing comedy.
Mark Waid -
When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
Hannibal Buress -
It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.
Phoebe Robinson -
I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.
Ty Burrell -
I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
Kaley Cuoco -
The Comedy of Emasculation that Judd Apatow and his disciples have made into a separate economy was invented by the Farrelly brothers, 'Kingpin' being the strongest version of that.
Elvis Mitchell
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I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.
Katie Aselton -
What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
Rachel Sklar -
I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.
Pauly Shore -
Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.
Jay Pharoah