Comedy Quotes - Page 10

• Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

  Happiness, Laughter, Fear

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• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  Garry Shandling

  Survival, Defense, Able

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• And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

  Robert Klein

  Drama, School, Yale

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

  Colleen Haskell

  Fun, People, Stories

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• To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

  Steve Martin

  Art, People, Laughing

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

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• To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Life

  Love and Death, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

  Brittany Daniel

  Very Cool, Hard

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

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• Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

  Warren Mitchell

  Hatred, Conflict

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• Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

  Jerry Stiller

  Creativity, Creative, Growing

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

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• If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Art, Laughter

  George Steiner (1998). “Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman”, p.392, Yale University Press

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• I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.

  Reggie Watts

  Race, Expression, White

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• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  Zachary Knighton

  Drama, Careers, Done

  "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

  Zachary Knighton

  Believe, Hands, Feelings

  "Happy Beginnings and 'Happy Endings' for Zachary Knighton". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of Seinfeld, it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just take time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  Zachary Knighton

  Mean, People, Progress

  "Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton 'Happy Endings' interview: 'This is the anti-romantic comedy'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  Zachary Knighton

  Jobs, Drama, Giving

  "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

  Joel McHale

  Hair, Facts, Grunge

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

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• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, College, One Day

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• A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Giving Up, Careers, Guy

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• Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Somewhere Else

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Violence, Unexpected, Common

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Writing, Painting, Film

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

  Elinor Lipman

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

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• Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

  Leonard Maltin

  Play, Years, Today

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• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  Nancy Meyers

  Romantic, Writing, Reality

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

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