Comedy Quotes
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
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I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.
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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.
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I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
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That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
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I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
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I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
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My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
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I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.
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I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.
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Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.
