Comedy Quotes - Page 20

• Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

  Todd Phillips

  People, Cheesy, Directors

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• With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Attachment, Goal

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• I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

  Noah Baumbach

  People, Laughing, Different

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• It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.

  Woody Allen

  Issues, People, Intellectual

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

  Robin Williams

  Pay, Bills, Film

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

  Ricky Gervais

  Odd Things, Done, Television

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Drama, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

  Michael Hirst

  Writing, Thinking, Form

  "Interview: ‘Vikings’ creator Michael Hirst teases Season 3’s prophecies, romance". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 18, 2015.

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• I think that when you’re doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there’s a certain… like you can reject it, and it’s okay. It’s not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that’s when you get into hot water.

  Michael Pena

  Thinking, Water, Laughing

  "The Motion/Captured Interview: Michael Pena in ‘Observe and Report’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. April 7, 2009.

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• Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Office, Relax

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Interesting, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

  Robert Wyatt

  Comedian, Life Is, Cosmic

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.

  Scot Armstrong

  Writing, College, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

  Megan Mullally

  Gone, Dignity, Made

  Source: www.elle.com

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• To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

  Robert Duvall

  Real, Thinking, Choices

  "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.

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• What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

  Gore Vidal

  Views, Matter, Ends

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Writing, Athletic, Intellectual

  Slate's Working Podcast with David Plotz, October 17, 2014.

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• Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

  Andrew Denton

  Two, Laughing, People

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• Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.

  Mel Brooks

  Believe, People, Giving

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• After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Loss, Thinking

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If it gets you excited and it's something you've never read before that's another plus. I think also with improv and that whole world of stand-up, that's a whole other organism of comedy that still needs a story, but it's more free-form. On the set, it is the combination of both those worlds coming together: a great script and an allowance to play with it.

  Sandra Bullock

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy Talk THE HEAT, the Funniest Moment on Set, Their Chemistry, What BRIDESMAIDS Did for Female Comedies, and More". \interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

  Steve Buscemi

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Play

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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• What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

  Barbra Streisand

  Honesty, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

  John Cleese

  Two, Editing, Years

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2015.

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