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Comedy Quotes
"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
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"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
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"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."
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"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."
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"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
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"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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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
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"We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese."
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"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."
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"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
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"And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit."
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"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
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"I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit."
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"I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material."
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"I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy."
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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
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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."
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"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."
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"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
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"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
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"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
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"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
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"I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage."
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"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
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