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“My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put into it. I put blood, sweat and tears into stand-up comedy and the entertainment realm in general. For me to just know be coming around is a blessing. It's a blessing and it's an honor. It makes me say I can get more and I can do more.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.”

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Author:Hulk Hogan

“Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.”

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Author:Eddie Murphy

“In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.”

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Author:Michael Schur

“I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!”

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Author:Phyllis Diller

“There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.”

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“Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.”

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Author:Scott Simon

“At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.”

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Author:Guy Branum

“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.”

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Author:Nasim Pedrad

“I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.”

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Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.”

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Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”

“Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.”

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Author:Nicky Whelan

“I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.”

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Author:Brian Bonsall

“I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. Im really drawn to those as well. All different genres.”

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Author:Liana Liberato

“I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.”

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Author:Sami Gayle

“Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.”

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Author:Julian Fellowes

“Comedy is important! When youre having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.”

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Author:Michael Cudlitz

“Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.”

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Author:Rutina Wesley

“I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.”

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Author:Shanola Hampton

“A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.”

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Author:Jason Mantzoukas

“I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.”

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Author:Kari Matchett

“I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the “real comedians”. I like the idea of positioning myself as legendary rather than trying to fit in. Now do I see myself like that every day? No, but I think it's a funny attitude and maybe on some weird, spiritual level, maybe it's a good attitude.”

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Author:Chelsea Peretti

“Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.”

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Author:Kelli Berglund

“I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.”

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Author:Kelli Berglund

“Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.”

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Author:Brandon Jay McLaren

“I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.”

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Author:Paddy Considine

“I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.”

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Author:Liya Kebede

“I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'”

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Author:Gina Bellman

“I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.”

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Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.”

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Book:Rubber Balls and Liquor

Source: Rubber Balls and Liquor

“I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.”

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Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.”

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Author:Aleksey Igudesman

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