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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."
22
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
22
"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."
22
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
21
"I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view."
19
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
17
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
16
"The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else."
16
"Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable."
16
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
15
"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."
15
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
15
"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."
15
"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."
14
"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy."
14
"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
14
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
14
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
13
"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."
13
"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."
12
"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice."
12
"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."
12
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
11
"The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have."
11
"A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it."
10
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
10
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
10
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
10
"Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive."
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