Comedy Quotes
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'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.
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As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that Justin Bieber "roast" and I thought it was hilarious.
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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
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I love comedy. I don't think there's enough comedy on stage.
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
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I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.
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I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.
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I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.
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I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.
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But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.
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What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.
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My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
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The purpose of the whole the Comedy and of this portion the Paradiso is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
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I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.
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I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
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I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.
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It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.
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I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.
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I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.
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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
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I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
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I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender.
