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“I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.”

“To me, most theatre looks ridiculous. I find it very difficult to do. Personally, if I ever try to do serious stuff, I always end up looking like an asshole, so I might as well try and do comedy, because I'm good at that.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.”

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Author:Rashida Jones

“I think I'm a natural appreciator of comedy. I was definitely not the girl in junior high that all the guys wanted to date. They wanted to date my friends - which was great, because I had to be funny.”

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Author:Rashida Jones

“I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.”

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Author:Rashida Jones

“I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV...”

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Author:Edgar Wright

“Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.”

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Author:Adam Brody

“Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.”

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Author:Alan Arkin

“People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.”

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Author:Emily Blunt

“I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.”

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Author:Kristen Bell

“Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.”

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Author:Stanley Tucci

“Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.”

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Author:Leslie Mann

“I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.”

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Author:Nick Swardson

“I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.”

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Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.”

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Author:Alex Borstein

“I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.”

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Author:Keith Murray

“Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.”

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Author:Bill Bailey

“I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.”

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Author:Bill Bailey

“It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.”

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Author:Philippe Claudel

“Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.”

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Author:Fatih Ak?n

“As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.”

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Author:Patrice Leconte

“What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.”

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Author:Taye Diggs

“I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.”

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Author:Tone Bell

“I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.”

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Author:Reese Witherspoon

“To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“People at shows have told me that they've shown my videos to their parents and families to help them come out of the closet. It's very inspiring that comedy can do that and can help people cope with everyday life and challenges through humor.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.”

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Author:Daniel Craig

“I love comedy. It's where my heart is.”

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Author:Declan Lowney

“When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That's where I get sort of lost. I think, "Oh, there are six other jokes that we could say here!" I feel more at home with drama.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.”

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Author:Larry Wall

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