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“Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.”

“The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.”

“Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.”

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Author:Scott Thompson

“In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.”

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Author:Scott Thompson

“If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.”

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Author:Scott Thompson

“My theory is that comedy comes from little people.”

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Author:Scott Thompson

“I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.”

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Author:Matthew Fox

“I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.”

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Author:Ben Barnes

“I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.”

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Author:Jason Isaacs

“Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.”

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Author:Benny Hill

“I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.”

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Author:Benny Hill

“Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.”

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Author:Alan King

“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.”

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Author:George P. Baker

“Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.”

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Author:Paul Goodman

“'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.”

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“A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.”

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Author:Alan Ball

“Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

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Author:James Thurber

“There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.”

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Author:Michael Malone

“It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.”

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Author:Whit Stillman

“I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.”

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Author:Rachel Dratch

“If people do not laugh it's not comedy.”

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Author:Lars von Trier

“I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick.”

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Author:Mekhi Phifer

“I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.”

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Author:Marlon Wayans

“I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.”

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Author:Isla Fisher

“The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.”

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Author:Isla Fisher

“It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a part of that, especially when you're used to performing all your own material. It's OK with drama, I like being handed great material but I think with comedy it's far more personal and probably a lot harder for me to find a fit.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a comedy and you can't quite call it a romantic anything. It's not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“After having, I think, rather successfully mined the horror-comedy aspects of this concept over the course of Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky, the fans are really telling us that they want it to be scary again. Doing the remake just provides us with a really good opportunity to bring it home, so to speak.”

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Author:David Kirschner

“There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.”

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Author:David Kirschner

“I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.”

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Author:Rainn Wilson

“I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.”

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Author:Katherine Heigl

“Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is easy, comedy's hard." I think the broader it gets, if you miss by a millimetre, you've missed completely. It's a very hard thing to do.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".”

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Author:Isla Fisher

“I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.”

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Author:Isla Fisher

“People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.”

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Author:Topher Grace

“I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.”

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Author:Bruce Campbell

“All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show this talent, whatever that means, that I could be a dramatic actress as well. But the truth is, a) I don't know if I can, and b) I love doing comedy, and I felt almost a little embarrassed that I succumbed to the pressure. Vanity is really what it is. I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.”

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Author:Anna Faris

“Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

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