Comedy Quotes - Page 15

• There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.

  Vinnie Jones

  Stars, Kids, Play

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  Vince Vaughn

  Heart, Views, People

  "Vince Vaughn: The Biggest Man in the Room" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

  Shannon Woodward

  Errors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, Ive been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.

  Mircea Monroe

  Jobs, Pilots, Bills

  "Mircea Monroe on Showtime’s ‘Episodes’". Interview With Fred Topel, www.craveonline.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

  Riz Ahmed

  Rap, Inspiration, Stuff

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• Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

  Stephen Mangan

  People, Personal Things

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• I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

  Stephen Mangan

  Dark, Passionate, Way

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• It's really challenging to play comedy.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Play, Challenges

  "The Heartbreak Hotties". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 3, 2007.

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• My mom, she's like Why can't you just do a nice romantic comedy like Jennifer Love Hewitt? And I'm like: Mom, look at me. They just don't put me in those movies.

  Norman Reedus

  Mom, Nice, Looks

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• I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

  Laurie Holden

  Crush, Silly, Fighting

  "Laurie Holden Exclusive Interview THE WALKING DEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2010.

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• comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

  Staton Rabin

  Funny Things, People, Comedian

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• I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

  Ashley Greene

  Character, Done, Film

  "Ashley Greene Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 and OLIVIA TWISTED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  Zachary Knighton

  Drama, Careers, Done

  "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

  Zachary Knighton

  Believe, Hands, Feelings

  "Happy Beginnings and 'Happy Endings' for Zachary Knighton". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. February 23, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Writing, Painting, Film

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Acting, Serious

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.162

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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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