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“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”

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Author:Elinor Lipman

“Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.”

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Author:Leonard Maltin

“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.”

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Author:Nancy Meyers

“A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.”

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Author:Ron Moody

“Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.”

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Author:B. J. Novak

“'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.”

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Author:B. J. Novak

“When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“I've always just been attracted to comedy.”

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Author:Oscar Nunez

“I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I'm obsessed with 'Game of Thrones.' I love comedies - I really like '30 Rock' and 'Modern Family.'”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.”

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Author:Kevin Pollak

“I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.”

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Author:Brian Lamb

“It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.”

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Author:Eric Ladin

“I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.”

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Author:George Lopez

“Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.”

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Author:James Lafferty

“When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.”

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Author:Jared Padalecki

“In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.”

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Author:Sarah Polley

“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.”

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Author:Brett Ratner

“You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“I like comedy as a group sport.”

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Author:Maya Rudolph

“I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.”

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Author:Natasha Richardson

“I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

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