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Comedy Quotes
"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."
6
"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."
6
"It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story."
6
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
6
"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."
6
"We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese."
6
"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
6
"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."
5
"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."
5
"My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy."
5
"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."
5
"I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards."
4
"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
4
"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."
4
"Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down."
3
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
2
"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."
1
"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
1
"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
1
"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"
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