Comedic Quotes - Page 8

• I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

  Edward Burns

  Balance, Trying, Plot

  "Edward Burns on His New Movie, 'The Fitzgerald Family Christmas'". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

  Jim Carrey

  Play, Acting, Stories

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Sacrifice, Numbers

  "Jake Johnson: It's Legal to Smoke Bad Weed". Interview With Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2014.

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• If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

  Jane Levy

  Self, People, Safe

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Hero, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• My instincts are not comedic.

  Josh Lucas

  Instinct

  Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

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• And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

  Karen Russell

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• The fact that you can say stuff to people that other people are only thinking is always fun. It's a great tool for comedic moments, as well.

  Tom Ellis

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.

  Lake Bell

  Fun, Action, Painful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

  Busy Philipps

  Drama, Careers, Able

  "Busy Philipps Exclusive Interview JASON NASH IS MARRIED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

  Octavia Spencer

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.

  Erick Chavarria

  Boys, Thinking, Play

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• I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

  Will Smith

  Growing Up, Kids, Cameras

  "Will Smith and Margot Robbie Talk FOCUS, SUICIDE SQUAD, and More". Press conference, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Girl, Song, Confused

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.

  Bill Burr

  Growing Up, Mind, Territory

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

  Gerry Dee

  Fun, Hockey, Roots

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment. Within six weeks, I was in Cape Town and there was a script [of Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive'], but I didn't realize until I received the full script that Rashida [Jones] and Michael [Schur] had worked on it. It's a particularly funny episode. Joe and I always looked at it as a satire; it has a lot of comedic elements to it.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Mirrors, Black, Capes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

  Charlie Day

  People, Lines, Crosses

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

  Trevor Noah

  Race, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

  Jordan Peele

  Taken, Reality, Comedy

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Comedian, Actors

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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