Comedy Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

  John Bradley-West

  Drama, School, Long

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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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• I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

  Robert Webb

  Tvs, Grew Up, British

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• I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.

  Steve Martin

  Today, Firsts, Quitting

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

  Doug Stanhope

  Night, Years, Roots

  "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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• 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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• 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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• I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

  Robert Klein

  Men, Work Out, Sound

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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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• My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

  Amy Schumer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Middle, Best Comedy

  "Interview: Tom Hiddleston Talks 'avengers' Humor, Drama, and Where Loki May Go in 'thor 2' (Exclusive)". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.fandango.com. May 2 2012.

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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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• I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

  Frank Oz

  Drama, Dark, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.

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• I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.

  Corey Feldman

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview by Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.

  John Turturro

  Real, Drama, House

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• My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Years, Done

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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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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