Comedy Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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 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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• I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Cowboy, People

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, 2017.do512.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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• 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 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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• 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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• I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

  Jamie Lynn Sigler

  Thinking, Failing, Ive Learned

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• I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.

  Emo Philips

  Night, Years, Comedian

  "Emo Philips is still ... Emo". Interview with Steve Johnson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Spirit, Comic

  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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• 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 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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• People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Looks, Easy

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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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• 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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• 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'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."

  Gillian Jacobs

  School, Community, Gone

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

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

  Shannon Woodward

  Errors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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