Comedic Quotes

• No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

  Harold Ramis

  Trying, Matter, Form

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, Fun, Doors

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• As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Hollywood, Leading Ladies, 1960s

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• I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

  Jim Dale

  Clever, Laughing, Way

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

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• Ooh, it's too ­embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well ­received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so ­inept.

  Gary Lineker

  Romantic, Drama, College

  "Gary Lineker reveals he's staying with the BBC.. and reveals men fall over themselves to speak to Danielle in the street". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

  Lauren Hutton

  One Liner, Specialists

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• If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Drama, Light, Relief

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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• Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Comedian, Actors

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• I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.

  Erick Chavarria

  Boys, Thinking, Play

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• I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

  Will Smith

  Growing Up, Kids, Cameras

  "Will Smith and Margot Robbie Talk FOCUS, SUICIDE SQUAD, and More". Press conference, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

  Gerry Dee

  Fun, Hockey, Roots

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment. Within six weeks, I was in Cape Town and there was a script [of Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive'], but I didn't realize until I received the full script that Rashida [Jones] and Michael [Schur] had worked on it. It's a particularly funny episode. Joe and I always looked at it as a satire; it has a lot of comedic elements to it.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Mirrors, Black, Capes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.

  Bill Burr

  Growing Up, Mind, Territory

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

  Charlie Day

  People, Lines, Crosses

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Girl, Song, Confused

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Comedian, Actors

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

  Trevor Noah

  Race, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

  Jordan Peele

  Taken, Reality, Comedy

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

  Busy Philipps

  Drama, Careers, Able

  "Busy Philipps Exclusive Interview JASON NASH IS MARRIED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

  Octavia Spencer

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

  Karen Russell

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• My instincts are not comedic.

  Josh Lucas

  Instinct

  Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

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• I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.

  Lake Bell

  Fun, Action, Painful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The fact that you can say stuff to people that other people are only thinking is always fun. It's a great tool for comedic moments, as well.

  Tom Ellis

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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