Comedy Quotes - Page 40

• I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

  Candice Bergen

  Feels, Comfortable

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• How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

  Michael Moore

  "Less of Moore" by Paul Richards, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

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• Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

  Kevin James

  Vegas, Clubs, Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

  Arthur Smith

  Funny, Fall, Swimming

  "Underwater comedy" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2001.

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• All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

  Lord Byron

  Funny Marriage, Tragedy, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 9

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• Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

  James Thurber

  Tragedy, Outlook, Insight

  1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Case for Comedy'.

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• The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

  Jim Davis

  Contribution, Understatement

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• Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Quality, Safe

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• In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.

  Scott Thompson

  Gun, America, Wow

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• If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

  Scott Thompson

  Duos, Ifs

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• My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

  Scott Thompson

  People, Littles, Theory

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• I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

  John Carpenter

  Jobs, Thinking, Want

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• I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

  Matthew Fox

  Sorry, Blonde, I Can

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• I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

  Ben Barnes

  Real, Thinking, Actors

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• I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

  Jason Isaacs

  Years, Wings, Lasts

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• Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

  Alan King

  Laughing, Calling, Firsts

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• There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

  George P. Baker

  Clever, Views, Differences

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• Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

  Paul Goodman

  Power, Matter, Language

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• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Men, Tragedy

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

  Alan Ball

  Sex, Heart, Romance

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• Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Light, Looks

  "Lanterns and Lances". Book by James Thurber. Foreword, 1961.

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• There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

  Michael Malone

  Real, Grace, Redemption

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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• It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

  Whit Stillman

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

  Rachel Dratch

  Hate, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

  Lars von Trier

  People, Laughing, Ifs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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