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“I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.”

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Author:Barry Bostwick

“I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.”

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Author:Lucy Liu

“Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

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Author:Ben Schwartz

“If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.”

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Author:Joshua Mohr

“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.”

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Author:John Waters

“I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.”

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Author:David Shrigley

“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.”

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Author:Jasper Fforde

“And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.”

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Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“You cannot have the drama without comedy.”

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.”

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Author:Cameron Crowe

“Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“The scariest thing about screening a comedy ... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.”

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Author:Tim Heidecker

“At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.”

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Author:Tim Heidecker

“I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.”

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Author:Tim Heidecker

“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.”

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Author:Kel Mitchell

“I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.”

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Author:Kato

“The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.”

Source: Shakespeare, With Introductory Matter on Poetry, The Drama, and The Stage by S.T. Coleridge: Coleridge’s Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists

“Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.”

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Book:Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman

Source: Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman

“If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.”

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Author:George Clooney

“I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.”

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Author:Reggie Watts

“I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.”

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Author:Will Arnett

“Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being in a band. And a lot of comics play instruments.”

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Author:David Cross

“I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“Comedy is the only hope for humanity.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.”

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Author:Michael Richards

“I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.”

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Author:Jillian Bell

“The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.”

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Author:Scott Raab

“In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.”

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Author:Brian Williams

“One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.”

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Author:Glenn Howerton