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“Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.”

“And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.”

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“But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“Men don't hear women.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.”

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Author:Nick Cannon

“I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“I like to smoke, and when you smoke, things become less serious and you find the funny in things. So, even movies that aren't funny, they end up turning into comedies to me.”

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Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is When Harry Met Sally...”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I keep doing specials because I think there are a lot of people who make movies and TV who are fans of comedy - if they start to like you, they'll get a project going and call you in.”

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Author:Bill Burr

“There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. Before that, I never realized how much I sought other people's approval. Once I figured that out, I was free to move on and seek the approval of other people, in comedy clubs and showbiz meetings.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.”

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Author:Carl Reiner

“I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.”

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Author:Benjamin Bratt

“I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.”

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Author:Anna Faris

“The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.”

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Author:Kathleen Turner

“Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.”

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Author:Anna Faris

“I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.”

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Author:William H. Macy

“Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.”

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Author:Dane Cook

“If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.”

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Author:Jeff Baena

“There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.”

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Author:Matthew Lillard

“Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.”

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Author:Sean Astin

“I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests me, as a movie-goer. I like watching myself in movies. I want to choose movies that allow me to enjoy myself, the way that I want to entertain myself.”

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Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.”

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Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. I do like these ridiculous monster movies. They're scary, but they're absurd. I had a lot of fun in my 20's, watching a lot of these movies late at night.”

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Author:Ken Marino

“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

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Author:Adam Pally

“The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.”

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Author:Michael Cera

“I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.”

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Author:John Oliver

“I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.”

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Author:Elizabeth Banks

“It's kind of a camaraderie in the comedy community, people are kind of proud of how badly they go down sometimes, and it's quite nice to join in with that.”

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Author:Amy Hoggart

“People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.”

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Author:John Darnielle

“Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.”

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Author:Russell Peters

“There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.”

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Author:Bill Burr

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