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“I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.”

“When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.”

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Author:Donal Logue

“When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion

“I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion

“Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?”

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“Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”

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Source: Poetical works

“The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.”

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Author:Paul Reiser

“When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?”

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Author:Carol Burnett

“Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.”

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Author:Barbara Stanwyck

“There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.”

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Author:Ivan Reitman

“I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”

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Author:David Letterman

“The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.”

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Author:David Letterman

“New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.”

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Author:David Letterman

“If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.”

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Author:Robert Moses

“Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

“Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.”

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Author:Ivan Reitman

“If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.”

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Author:William Shatner

“It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.”

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Author:Bradley Cooper

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