Comedy Quotes - Page 17

• You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

  Pauly Shore

  Real, Inspire, Comedian

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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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• Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Laughter, Winter, Long Ago

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• Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

  Robert Klein

  People, Alive, Priesthood

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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'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

  Kathy Griffin

  Special, Biographies, Spoof

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• I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

  Yvonne De Carlo

  Timing, Found, Ability

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

  Judy Gold

  People, Laughing, Way

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• Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Acting, Physical Comedy, Hard

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• I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Community, Tvs

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• A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, "Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it." She goes, "Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?"

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mean, Icons, Feminist

  "'Community': Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.thedailybeast.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Years, Glee

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• You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

  Penelope Wilton

  Laughing, Trying, Cry

  "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

  Madeline Kahn

  Trying, Moments, That Moment

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• I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

  Patti LuPone

  Jobs, Best Job, Situation

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• For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

  Robin Williams

  Hypocrisy, Sides, Kind

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• I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Jumping, Lasts, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.

  Donnie Yen

  Couple, Icons, Balance

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• It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

  Richard Ayoade

  Stupid, Men, Funny Things

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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• 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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• A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

  George Ade

  Art, Musical, Entertainment

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