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• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

  Robert Englund

  Italian, Venice, Festivals

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

  Val Guest

  Jobs, Terrible

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• When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Character, Play, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

  Robert Moses

  Idols, Musical, Administration

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• Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Baby, Funny Life, Mistake

  "German schoolkids perform adorably chilling Kraftwerk cover" by Joe Blevins, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2015.

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• My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

  Adam Sandler

  Different, Hell, Knows

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• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  Jerry Lewis

  Baby, Thinking, Machines

  "Hey Laaaady: Jerry Lewis Isn't Laughing". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

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• My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

  Eric Morecambe

  Clever, Garden, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

  Trey Parker

  Realizing, Turds, Jerry

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• My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

  Emo Philips

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Smile, Taught

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• I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "75 Funniest Jokes of All Time". "GQ Magazine", June 1999.

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  Ted Levine

  Ageless

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• I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

  Paul Putner

  Real, Fans, Might

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• I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

  Austin Peck

  Thinking, Instinct

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• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  Wanda Sykes

  People, Tvs, Deals

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

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• There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

  Aries Spears

  Fall, Structure, Fall Into Place

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• I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Teenager, Drinking, Evil

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• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  Dawn Powell

  War, Men, Vanity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

  Aaron Allston

  Differences, Tragedy, Awful

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• I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

  Davy Jones

  Fifty, Killers, Shows

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• Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Talking, Actors

  "Major in Success". Book by Patrick Combs and Jack Canfield, 2003.

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• I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Laughing, Hours

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Insanity

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

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