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“I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.”

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Author:Phoebe Fox

“I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.”

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Author:Ian McLeod

“In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.”

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Author:Ian McLeod

“My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think that it's one of the best ever.”

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Author:Teryl Rothery

“I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.”

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Author:Teryl Rothery

“I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.”

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Author:Suzanne Shaw

“I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.”

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Author:Nathalie Emmanuel

“I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.”

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Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.”

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Author:Patrick Wilson

“I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.”

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Author:Howard Shore

“I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.”

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Author:Adam McKay

“I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.”

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Author:Tom Hollander

“Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.”

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Author:John Cho

“I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up.”

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Author:John Cho

“Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.”

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Book:Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]

Source: Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]

“I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.”

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Author:Cher

“comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.”

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Book:Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER

Source: Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER

“When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was 'Oh maybe it's better if you just die,' because it was killing her that I was doing this.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.”

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Author:Serena Williams

“Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.”

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Author:Madeline Kahn

“When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.”

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Author:Tim Allen

“I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way.”

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Author:Rob Reiner

“Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.”

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Author:Tcheky Karyo

“I don't think there are hour comedies, but if there were, I would have been open to it.”

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Author:Cristin Milioti

“I like doing both comedy and drama. I'm not really feeling more drawn to one over the other. I also like dramedies. I like movies and TV shows that are mixtures of the two.”

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Author:Jane Levy

“When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.”

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Author:Aisha Tyler

“Interestingly it's when you come to the comedy, that's where a lot of the discussion is. It's like ten people sitting around talking about what is funny. "Is that funny? Is that funnier than that? Is this slightly funnier than this?" I guess that's what it's like when you're making a comedy movie as well, you just have to sit around talking seriously about the nature of comedy.”

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Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.”

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Author:Jenny Slate

“I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree”

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Author:Joel McHale

“I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.”

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Author:Joel McHale

“There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.”

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Author:Ari Graynor

“I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then there are comedy people that go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do drama." I want to try to do both.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.”

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Author:Jason Momoa

“I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.”

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Author:Amy Seimetz

“I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.”

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Author:Sandra Bullock

“I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.”

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Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.”

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Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.”

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Author:Sandra Bernhard

“It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.”

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Author:Jon Turteltaub

“It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.”

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Author:Sandra Bernhard

“What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.”

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Author:Jerry Lewis

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