Comedy Quotes - Page 13

• 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 feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

  Ricky Gervais

  Dressing Up, Faces, Funny Face

  "Ricky Gervais goes to Springfield". Interview with Brian Viner, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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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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• Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

  Ivan Reitman

  Strings Attached, Way, Honest

  Source: collider.com

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• It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Couple, Fun, Thinking

  "Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis Talk THE HANGOVER PART III, Looking Back on the Franchise, Weirdest Moments, Vegas, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 21, 2013.

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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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• Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Shops, Jokes

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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• In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.

  Ron White

  Long, Trying, Clubs

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.

  Hilary Swank

  Drama, People, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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 feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.

  Sarah Silverman

  Sexy, People, World

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Use, Language, Poetic

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2000.

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• I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

  David Rees

  Comedian, Hobbies, Littles

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

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• People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Guy, Scripts

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Opinion, Form

  "Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass on Stand-Up Comedy and the Movies". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 23, 2012.

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• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  Ed Helms

  Childhood

  "Helms Deep". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 5, 2006.

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• jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Moments, Annihilation

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Stars, Aids, Kool Aid

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• I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Laughing, Serious

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• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

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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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• Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

  Kristen Schaal

  People, Messed Up, Knows

  "The Hot Seat: Daily Show contributor Kristen Schaal". Interview with Sarah Theeboom, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2012.

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