Comedy Quotes - Page 27

• I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

  Dane Cook

  Taken, Thinking, Games

  "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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• Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

  Bruce McCall

  Funny, School, Humor

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• I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

  Brian Regan

  Honesty, People, Laughing

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• I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Tragedy, Timing, Plus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think all great comedies - or at least the comedies I like - it has some of the funniest moments, but it never breaks the spell for the audience. It never pushes the audience away by spoofing itself too much or undermining the characters or making them cardboard or flimsy. Everybody is really trying to do what their characters believe in - and so nobody breaks the spell of the world, even though in other ways it's a comedy and very funny.

  James Franco

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

  Tom Six

  Kids, Drawing, Twists

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• What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Two, People, Together

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• When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.

  Mel Brooks

  Special, Littles, Sci Fi

  "Q&A with Mel Brooks". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, www.latimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.

  David Hayter

  Emotional, Attention, Stories

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• Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Drama, Passion, Cake

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• I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Fall, Kissing, Thinking

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Thinking, Needs, Kind

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Stories, Ends

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• Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

  Kevin Feige

  Meritocracy, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

  Steve Martin

  Humble, Opportunity, Missing

  "Steve Martin Interview - The Pink Panther 2". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

  Roxane Gay

  Romantic Love, Thinking, Feminist

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

  Tig Notaro

  Guitar, People, Comedian

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• I usually have sex to my stand-up comedy album. Power move.

  Jeff Ross

  Sex, Moving, Power Moves

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

  Lewis Black

  Guarantees That, Clubs, Worst

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

  Rob Riggle

  Senior, Humorous, School

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

  Don Cheadle

  School, Sides, Difficult

  "Don Cheadle Talks IRON MAN 3, THE AVENGERS, HOUSE OF LIES, and His Miles Davis Biopic". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.

  Don Cheadle

  Kids, Would Be, Sides

  "Don Cheadle Talks IRON MAN 3, THE AVENGERS, HOUSE OF LIES, and His Miles Davis Biopic". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2011.

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