Comedy Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

  Norm MacDonald

  Thinking, People, Want

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• My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

  Ron Moody

  Portrayal

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• Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

  Tracy Morgan

  Anything Goes, Clubs, Sacred

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Want

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2007.

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• Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Reality, Scary, Scary Things

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

  Zosia Mamet

  Dark, Laughing, Arise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

  B. J. Novak

  Watches, Glad, Knows

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

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• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  B. J. Novak

  Real, Air, Office

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

  Dean Norris

  College, Pranks

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

  Dean Norris

  Play, People, Would Be

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  Oscar Nunez

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• I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Character, Thinking, Obstacles

  "'The Big Bang Theory': Kunal Nayyar Talks Raj's New Confidence" by Lesley Goldber, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

  Woody Allen

  Idols, Childhood, Sunrise

  "Woody chooses music over film", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2001.

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• Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

  John Updike

  Differences, Tragedy, Another Chance

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.238, Random House

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• I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

  Joan Rivers

  Self Confidence, Ego, Grows

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• A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Acting, Serious

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.162

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• The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

  Bill Maher

  Tonight, Humour

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, People

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• When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

  Carol Burnett

  Humor, Doe, Actors

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• Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

  David Duchovny

  Heart, Journey, Example

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• There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Vulgarity Is, Tragedy, Surface

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• Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

  Ivan Reitman

  Doors, May, Evolution

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• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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• The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

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• I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

  David Letterman

  Running, Gentleman, Problem

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