Comedy Quotes - Page 15

• I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

  Casey Wilson

  People, Funny People

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• It's really challenging to play comedy.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Play, Challenges

  "The Heartbreak Hotties". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 3, 2007.

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• I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

  Adam Shankman

  Couple, Drama, School

  "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.

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• There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.

  Vinnie Jones

  Stars, Kids, Play

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  Vince Vaughn

  Heart, Views, People

  "Vince Vaughn: The Biggest Man in the Room" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Editing, Important, Posts

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• Jeff Ross has a new show on Comedy Central where he roasts the news. It'll be perfect for people who find Jon Stewart too handsome and funny.

  Seth Green

  People, Perfect, News

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• A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

  Colm Meaney

  Writing, Comic, Enjoy

  "Colm Meaney Manifest Destiny". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 7, 2012.

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• In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

  Michele Lee

  Dancing, Musical, Singing

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• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  Darlene Cates

  Roles, Fiction, Fats

  "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

  Riz Ahmed

  Rap, Inspiration, Stuff

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• Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

  Bill Hader

  Failing, Not Afraid, Afraid To Fail

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• Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

  Stephen Mangan

  People, Personal Things

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• I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

  Stephen Mangan

  Dark, Passionate, Way

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• Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

  Shannon Woodward

  Errors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

  David Alan Basche

  Fun, Next, Episodes

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• I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

  David Alan Basche

  Laughing, Because I Can, I Can

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• When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

  Jeff Garlin

  Feelings, Trying, Actors

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• I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

  Jeff Garlin

  Be Who You Are, Stuff, Boring

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• I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.

  Skylar Astin

  Jobs, Fun, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, Ive been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.

  Mircea Monroe

  Jobs, Pilots, Bills

  "Mircea Monroe on Showtime’s ‘Episodes’". Interview With Fred Topel, www.craveonline.com. July 31, 2012.

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• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  Ed Asner

  Character, Essentials, Needs

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• comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

  Staton Rabin

  Funny Things, People, Comedian

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• I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

  Ashley Greene

  Character, Done, Film

  "Ashley Greene Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 and OLIVIA TWISTED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2011.

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• A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

  Richard Ayoade

  Stupid, Men, Funny Things

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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