Comedy Quotes
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The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.
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I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.
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I'm so excited about 'Identity Thief'. It's such a good comedy, and I'm excited for people to go out and see it!
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I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.
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I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
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If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people who go to comedy festivals and follow comedians, and really treat it like rock 'n' roll - which it can be, but more like the geeky rock 'n' roll.
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Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
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I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.
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I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.
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I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
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If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
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Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
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With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.
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I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
