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• Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

  Jenna Elfman

  People, Laughing, Challenges

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

  Stephen Dorff

  Drama, Firsts, Kind

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• I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

  Larry David

  Thinking

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  Faith Ford

  Thinking, Hardest, Things To Do

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• Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

  Val Kilmer

  Years, Wells

  "Robert Downey, Jr. & Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)". Interview with George Merchan, www.chud.com. October 27, 2005.

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• I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

  Pia Zadora

  Love, Drama, Stories

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• I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

  Paul Reiser

  People, Comedian, Dentist

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• I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

  Aaron Eckhart

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• It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

  Tony Hancock

  Two, Ingredients, Seems

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• Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Dark, Difficult, Audience

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• I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

  John Cleese

  Book, Writing, Want

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• Comedy is second nature for me.

  Anthony Anderson

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Character, Different Faces, Glad

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• To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

  Nikki Cox

  Drama, Honest

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• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

  Illeana Douglas

  Fans, May, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

  Michael Dorn

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

  Jenna Elfman

  Mean, Pieces, Sticks

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Television, Series

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• Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

  Michael Caine

  Drama, Writing, Scripts

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• I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

  Noah Hathaway

  Want, Action, Cry

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• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  Jack Lemmon

  Drama, Writing, Hard Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

  Sharon Gless

  Drama, Minorities, Lead In

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• There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that

  Cillian Murphy

  Depth, Stuff, Sake

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• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  Owen Wilson

  Senior, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

  Imogene Coca

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  "1950's TV Star Imogene Coca Dies at 92" by Donna Tommelleo, abcnews.go.com.

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