Comedy Quotes - Page 27

• I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.

  Ben Schwartz

  Fun, Character, Parks And Recreation

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

  Shannon Woodward

  Errors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

  Adam Shankman

  Couple, Drama, School

  "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.

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• To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

  Kathy Griffin

  Jobs, Giving Up, Staggering

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

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Editing, Important, Posts

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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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• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  Darlene Cates

  Roles, Fiction, Fats

  "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

  Bill Hader

  Failing, Not Afraid, Afraid To Fail

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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 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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• Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

  Howard Shore

  Summer, Night, Acting

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• The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Actors, Pieces

  "INTERVIEW: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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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 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 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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• Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

  Jim Norton

  Art, Thinking, Museums

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• I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.

  Joelle Carter

  Dark, Play, Balls

  "Joelle Carter Talks JUSTIFIED and Desire to Shoot an Indie Feature in Florida". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.

  Allen Covert

  Summer, Kids, House

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• I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  Fun, Hard

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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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• I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

  Miranda Hart

  Laughing, Joy, Comedian

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