Comedy Quotes - Page 18

• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  Daniel Bruhl

  People, Interesting, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Ideas, Clubs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Editing, Important, Posts

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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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• In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

  Michele Lee

  Dancing, Musical, Singing

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• The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

  Ray Romano

  Drama, Balance, Feels

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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 the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Destiny, Government, Ideas

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

  David Alan Basche

  Laughing, Because I Can, I Can

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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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• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  Ed Asner

  Character, Essentials, Needs

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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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• 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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• We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

  Max Hastings

  Play, Ridiculous, Divine

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

  Roger Ebert

  Hate, Stupid, Action

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.597, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

  Christine Lakin

  Laughter, Character, Kids

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• I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

  John Cullum

  Musical, Singing, Agents

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• It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

  Miranda Hart

  Buckets, Lines, One Line

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• Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

  Bill Maher

  Three, Elements, Recognition

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

  Ian Hislop

  Strong, Weak, Best Comedy

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• Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

  George Hickenlooper

  Beautiful, Play, Historical

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• My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Drama, Writing

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• The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

  Doug Stanhope

  Comedian, Done, Clubs

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.

  Doug Stanhope

  Believe, Want, Vote

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• Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

  Jessi Klein

  Art, College, Degrees

  "Comedian Jessi Klein Plays Not My Job Listen". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 8, 2011.

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