Comedy Quotes - Page 30

• My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

  Ruth Wilson

  Parent, Roles, Saying Please

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

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• I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Rocks, Gold

  "Community creator Dan Harmon". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

  Todd Phillips

  People, Cheesy, Directors

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• With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Attachment, Goal

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• It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.

  Woody Allen

  Issues, People, Intellectual

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

  Robin Williams

  Pay, Bills, Film

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

  Michael Hirst

  Writing, Thinking, Form

  "Interview: ‘Vikings’ creator Michael Hirst teases Season 3’s prophecies, romance". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 18, 2015.

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• I think that when you’re doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there’s a certain… like you can reject it, and it’s okay. It’s not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that’s when you get into hot water.

  Michael Pena

  Thinking, Water, Laughing

  "The Motion/Captured Interview: Michael Pena in ‘Observe and Report’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. April 7, 2009.

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• The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Interesting, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

  Joan Rivers

  Play, Tragedy, Twists

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• To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

  Robert Duvall

  Real, Thinking, Choices

  "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.

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• After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Loss, Thinking

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

  Andrew Denton

  Two, Laughing, People

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• I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

  Steve Buscemi

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Play

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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• What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

  Barbra Streisand

  Honesty, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Zooey Deschanel Talks NEW GIRL Season 2, a Possible Crossover Episode with THE MINDY PROJECT, Voicing a Character on THE SIMPSONS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.

  Queen Latifah

  Fun, Real, Niece

  "Queen Latifah, Neil Meron, and Craig Zadan Talk STEEL MAGNOLIAS and How the Lifetime Version Is Different from the Original". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2012.

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• I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.

  Rob Corddry

  Guy, Together, Ends

  "What Happens In Vegas - Rob Corddry and Lake Bell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

  Seth Rogen

  Hands, Sick, Brain

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

  Robin Ince

  Writing, Thinking, Patterns

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• I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.

  Jim Carrey

  Crowds, Scripts, Reason

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.

  Tommy Chong

  Littles, Mainstream, Exciting

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.

  Eddie Izzard

  Giving, Comedian, Brain

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

  Eddie Izzard

  Block, Drama, Believe

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Tragedy, Novelists

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