Comedy Quotes - Page 14

• FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

  Paul Scheer

  Giving, Doe, Great Things

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

  Brendan Coyle

  Drama, Lying, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

  Judy Gold

  People, Laughing, Way

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• Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Acting, Physical Comedy, Hard

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• I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fun, Nice, World

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."

  Gillian Jacobs

  School, Community, Gone

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Community, Tvs

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• A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, "Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it." She goes, "Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?"

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mean, Icons, Feminist

  "'Community': Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.thedailybeast.com. February 28, 2012.

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• NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Nbc, Giving, Legs

  "Community: NBC Show Cast Not Worried About Ratings" by Trevor Kimball, tvseriesfinale.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Years, Glee

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• You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

  Penelope Wilton

  Laughing, Trying, Cry

  "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

  Albert Brooks

  Yelling, People, Shows

  "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

  Albert Brooks

  Writing, Directors, Knows

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• I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

  Albert Brooks

  Bigger, Wanted

  "Toronto 2011: Albert Brooks Talks Oscar Buzz for His 'Drive' Performance" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

  Madeline Kahn

  Trying, Moments, That Moment

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• I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

  Patti LuPone

  Jobs, Best Job, Situation

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• I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Modern Family, Wish

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• For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

  Robin Williams

  Hypocrisy, Sides, Kind

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• I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Jumping, Lasts, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Eye, Looks, Way

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• The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

  Toby Jones

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.

  Donnie Yen

  Couple, Icons, Balance

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• It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.

  Ben Schwartz

  Fun, Character, Parks And Recreation

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• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  Daniel Bruhl

  People, Interesting, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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