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Comedy Quotes
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
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"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."
46
"Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable."
46
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
44
"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice."
42
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
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"The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else."
38
"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."
37
"I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view."
36
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
35
"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."
34
"Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive."
33
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
32
"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy."
32
"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
32
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
30
"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
30
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
30
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
29
"Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful."
29
"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
29
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
28
"A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it."
28
"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
28
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
28
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
27
"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."
27
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
27
"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."
27
"I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area."
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