Comedy Quotes
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I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.
Ciaran Hinds
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Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?
Jenna Elfman
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I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
Ana Gasteyer
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In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.
Kevin Hart
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I've done history; I've done biopics, I've done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can't typecast me, you can't pigeonhole me.
Jason Mitchell
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My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.
Christopher Walken
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The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
Peter Segal
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Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.
Michael Frayn
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I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.
Jay Duplass
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I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.
Alice Lowe
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I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.
Eliza Coupe
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I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.
Kristen Schaal
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It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.
Cameron Esposito
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I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.
Jillian Bell
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
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More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.
Ari Graynor
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
Matt Groening
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To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.
Ken Marino
