Comedy Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• 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'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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• Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.

  Taylor Negron

  Beach, Laughter, Thinking

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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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• Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, Laughing, People

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Also Talks THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK, His Career, Sequels, and SO Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Rocks, Fey

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

  Paul Goodman

  May, Surface, Malice

  Paul Goodman (1979). “Creator Spirit Come!: The Literary Essays of Paul Goodman”, Dutton Adult

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• Don't get it right, just get it written.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Written

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.562, Library of America

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Style

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

  Paul Kane

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Light, Looks

  "Lanterns and Lances". Book by James Thurber. Foreword, 1961.

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• We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

  James Thurber

  Wicked, Faults, Mines

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• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Men, Tragedy

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Wish, Asbestos

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• I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

  Candice Bergen

  Feels, Comfortable

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• There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

  Michael Malone

  Real, Grace, Redemption

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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• The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

  Arthur Smith

  Funny, Fall, Swimming

  "Underwater comedy" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2001.

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• I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

  Jason Isaacs

  Years, Wings, Lasts

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• We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

  Eric Morecambe

  Brother, Navy, Dave

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

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