Comedy Quotes
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
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Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
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Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
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If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.
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I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.
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A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it, and it's a little too cool for school.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
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The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.
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I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.
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I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.
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I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with them, daily. YouTube has been a game changer as well - people around the world have been exposed to my comedy through my YouTube channel.
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Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
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The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.
