Comedy Quotes - Page 10

• Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

  Happiness, Laughter, Fear

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• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  Garry Shandling

  Survival, Defense, Able

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• And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

  Robert Klein

  Drama, School, Yale

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

  Colleen Haskell

  Fun, People, Stories

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• To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

  Steve Martin

  Art, People, Laughing

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

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• To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Life

  Love and Death, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

  Brittany Daniel

  Very Cool, Hard

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

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• Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

  Warren Mitchell

  Hatred, Conflict

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• Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

  Jerry Stiller

  Creativity, Creative, Growing

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

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• If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Art, Laughter

  George Steiner (1998). “Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman”, p.392, Yale University Press

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• I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.

  Reggie Watts

  Race, Expression, White

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• A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Giving Up, Careers, Guy

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• Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

  Zosia Mamet

  Dark, Laughing, Arise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  Nancy Meyers

  Romantic, Writing, Reality

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

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• I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Want

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2007.

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• Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Somewhere Else

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

  Elinor Lipman

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

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• Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Reality, Scary, Scary Things

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

  B. J. Novak

  Watches, Glad, Knows

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

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• Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

  Joel McHale

  Hair, Facts, Grunge

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

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• I love comedy. David's Lynch the only person I've worked with more than once who sees me as a specific thing - he sees me as the sexy bimbo, in ways, and he also sees me as Lucille Ball. Actually, Nick Cage and I did Lucy and Ricky in two scenes in Wild at heart that were cut because the movie was four hours long.

  Laura Dern

  Sexy, Heart, Cutting

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• Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

  Tracy Morgan

  Anything Goes, Clubs, Sacred

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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• My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

  Ron Moody

  Portrayal

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• Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

  Leonard Maltin

  Play, Years, Today

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