Comedy Quotes - Page 28

• I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Emotional, Thinking

  "Salman Rushdie Goes Hollywood". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 23, 2013.

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• A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

  Elijah Wood

  Honesty, Real, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.

  Letty Aronson

  Drama, People, Honor

  Source: deadline.com

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• The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.

  Larry Charles

  Laughing, Firsts, Criteria

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• When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

  Will Forte

  People, Kind, Snl

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• I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

  Matthew Lillard

  Guy, Comedian, Actors

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• One of the great things about being on a show for a long period of time is watching the show evolve. A friend told me a long time ago "It should be easy" and it usually is if you're not distracted with the usual demons any creative person has. Especially with comedy because you find yourself laughing while you work.

  John Swihart

  Long, Laughing, Creative

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• I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all fun and you have to keep your sense of humor and not take yourself seriously.

  Betty White

  Fun, Faces, Sense Of Humor

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• I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

  Kristen Bell

  Fun, Energy, Nervous

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Want, Succeed

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• I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Tomorrow, Kind

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.

  Susan Stroman

  Father, House, Tvs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel more comfortable in another kind of movie.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, Kind, Feels

  "'Learning to Drive' Helmer Isabel Coixet on Middle-Age Life Lessons, the Hazards of Shooting in a Car". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2015.

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• If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs."

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Talking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

  Christoph Waltz

  Philosophy, Real, Needs

  Source: screenrant.com

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• A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

  Christoph Waltz

  Silly, Play, Guy

  Source: screenrant.com

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• [At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.

  Amy Poehler

  College, Boston, Skills

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, Past, Self

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Laughing, Love Making

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". "Mirror" Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

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• I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Trying, Tools

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?

  Seth Rogen

  Real, Home, Writing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.

  Seth Rogen

  School, Night, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's almost tailor-made for people who shoot the way we shoot, trying a million different options and versions of things. Because the audience doesn't laugh at a joke, we put in another joke. If they don't laugh at the next joke, we put in another joke. You just keep doing them and you can get the movie to the point where every joke is funny, if you have enough options in the can.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Zero, Boys

  "Eddie Izzard, Force Of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

  Steve Coogan

  Enjoy

  "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Helen Barlow, www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

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