Skit Quotes

• In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

  David Strathairn

  Party, Order, Crash

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• She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

  Louise Fletcher

  Uncles, Kids, Night

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

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• The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

  Dawn Powell

  Age, Ingredients, Dupes

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

  Ellen Muth

  Kids, Dancing, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

  Jason Bateman

  Writing, Work Out, Messages

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• If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Successful, Player, Looks

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Talk Key & Peele Series Premiere". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

  Nadia Giosia

  Years, Television, Comedy

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• When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

  Keri Russell

  Alcohol, World, Mice

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.

  Tinsel Korey

  Art, Kids, Sensitive Person

  Source: collider.com

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• ... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Giving, Lines

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• I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

  Scoot McNairy

  Choices, Mind, Different

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

  David Wilkerson

  Silly, People, Dying

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• So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.

  Kanye West

  Dream, Zoos, Animal

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• I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Writing, Buying, Boat

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

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• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

  Viola Davis

  Writing, Escaping, Age

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

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• 

  I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

  Christopher Walken

  Fever, Snl, Saturday Night Live

  "Fictional character: Bruce Dickinson". "Saturday Night Live/ Christopher Walken/Christina Aguilera", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

  Steve Martin

  School, Laughing, Bedroom

  "Steve Martin Memoir Recalls A Past Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2009.

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• I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

  Leah Remini

  Mom, Kids, Used

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

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• [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

  Dorothy Parker

  Thinking, Annoyed, Actors

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