"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

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"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

Jim Dale, British Musician

Comedy, Singing, Songs

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

Aries Spears, American Actor

Comedy,

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

Larry David, American Actor

Comedy,

"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

Comedy, Disguise

"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

Jeanne Tripplehorn, American Actress

Comedy, Television

"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

Aries Spears, American Actor

Comedy,

"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."

Hector Elizondo, American Actor

Comedy,

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

Comedy,

"Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon."

Cherise Sinclair, American Author

Comedy, Humor, Sarcasm, Absurdity, Adventure

"It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder."

Jenna Elfman, American Actress

Comedy,

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"A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line."

Motivational

"American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is."

People

"Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it."

Business

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

Father

"Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs."

Drink

"Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any."

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"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."

"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

"Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon."

"It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder."

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"The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange."

"Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts."

"Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously."

"Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls."

"A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line."

"American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is."

"Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it."

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

"Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs."

"Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any."