Comedy Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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 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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• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  B. J. Novak

  Real, Air, Office

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  Oscar Nunez

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• I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Character, Thinking, Obstacles

  "'The Big Bang Theory': Kunal Nayyar Talks Raj's New Confidence" by Lesley Goldber, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

  John Updike

  Differences, Tragedy, Another Chance

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.238, Random House

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• I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

  Joan Rivers

  Self Confidence, Ego, Grows

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• When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

  Carol Burnett

  Humor, Doe, Actors

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• Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

  David Duchovny

  Heart, Journey, Example

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• Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

  Ivan Reitman

  Doors, May, Evolution

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• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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• Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

  David Letterman

  Names, Iraq, Republican

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• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  David Letterman

  New York, Moving, Cities

  "Late Show with David Letterman", February 9, 1984.

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• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Travel, Land

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• I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

  Ricky Gervais

  Acting, Fraternity

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

  Nick Kroll

  Cheesy, Sound, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Appreciate, Comedian, Kind

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfes". Do512 Interview, do512.com.

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• I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Fake, Taught

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

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• I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

  Steven Spielberg

  Summer, Cousin, Drama

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Source: www.mrmovietimes.com

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• The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

  Dean Norris

  Play, People, Would Be

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

  Dean Norris

  College, Pranks

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Smart, People, Want

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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