Comedy Quotes - Page 38

• Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

  Jack Nicholson

  Drama, Doe, Looks

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

  Trevor Noah

  Comedian, World, Crowded

  Source: variety.com

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• When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

  Trevor Noah

  White, People, Black

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Trying, Tools

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond.

  Stephanie Beatriz

  Girl, Teenage, Father

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Light, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

  Jamie Babbit

  Dark, Yang, Actors

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

  Jamie Babbit

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

  "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Want, Moments

  "Zooey Deschanel Interview NEW GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

  John Landgraf

  Drama, Thinking, Continuing On

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

  Aziz Ansari

  Fun, Thinking, Two

  "Aziz Ansari and Dilshad Vadsaria On Set Interview 30 Minutes or Less". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

  Martin Short

  Actors

  Source: deadline.com

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• I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

  Martin Short

  Country, Character, Live Concerts

  Source: deadline.com

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• When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

  Mila Kunis

  Drama, Character, Play

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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• As soon as you meet him [james Corden], within five minutes you'll want to sleep with him. He presented me with my award for Comedy Actress of the Year at the Glamour Awards and he said such lovely things. He's so charming and he listens to you and he's funny and sensitive and adorable. I can totally see why all the women fall for him.

  Joanna Page

  Fall, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.

  Colin Farrell

  Drama, Voice, Narrators

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It's the same kind of preparation you do for something like this you do for anything. It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

  Jessica Biel

  Drama, Character, Preparation

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Dirty, Air, Perfect

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

  Colin Farrell

  Drama, Character, Preparation

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].

  Martin McDonagh

  Thinking, Stories, World

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.

  Margaret Cho

  Media, Personality, Important

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

  Margaret Cho

  World, Growing, Want

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

  Margaret Cho

  Country, Usa, People

  "Margaret Cho: No one is more sensitive about p.c. culture than white people". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.salon.com. October 3, 2015.

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• One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

  Christoph Waltz

  Doe, Decent, Bases

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

  Christoph Waltz

  People, Together, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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