Comedy Quotes
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
Miguel De Cervantes
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The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.
Harry Levin
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he`s stuck with so many bad actors who don`t know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life`s tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Subject: Humor QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
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We went to this huge, icecream picture palace to see a Bollywood movie. Here we were, with 2,000 Indians watching a film in Hindi, and there was the lowest possible comedy and then incredible drama and tragedy and then break out in songs. And it was three...
Baz Luhrmann
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When R-rated comedies don`t work, the studios are really embarrassed by them. But a PG-13 comedy is actually less offensive than an episode of "Friends" (1994). I think people want something a little more adult.
Judd Apatow
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Comedy is the hardest thing for me.
Matt Dillon
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I`ve never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I`m fit, people assume that I`m not funny?
Jessica Biel
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(On appearing in Don Roos`s edgy dark comedy The Opposite of Sex (1998)): "I wanted to do a bigger movie with a broader audience. I realized there are people between the coasts that have no idea I`ve worked since "Roseanne" (1988).
Johnny Galecki
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I do agree you can`t just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that`s longer than most marriages.
David Fincher
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[Comedy] demands more timing, pace, shading and subtlety of emphasis. It is difficult to learn but once it is acquired it can be easily slowed down and becomes an excellent foundation for dramatic acting.
Irene Dunne
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I cut my finger. That`s tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That`s comedy.
Mel Brooks
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.
Charlie Chaplin
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I`m 49-years-old and I`m cautious of the fact that very few people in comedy have careers after age 50. I think there`s a notion in our society, and it maybe valid, that people aren`t as funny when they get older. It`s a stigma still attached to the rebel...
Phil Hartman
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[on Audrey Hepburn] She`s a tomboy and a fine comedienne. You`d never think of her being able to do my type of comedy. But she can. She has great energy, frail as she looks. But, well, she`s so beautiful, so ethereal, it would be sacrilege to put her thro...
Lucille Ball
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I`m really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I`m just sort of doing projects that I`ve been finding really fun to be a part of.
John Krasinski
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I don`t really want to do a teen comedy, you know? I mean, I just didn`t want to be in a bad movie, that`s all. In reference to his hesitance in deciding whether or not to play his character Matthew Kidman in The Girl Next Door (2004).
Emile Hirsch
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Comedy is what I do best, the crying, you know dramatic things, that is not my thing. I do physical comedy so I felt right at home.
Tori Spelling
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Comedy is what I do best, the crying, you know dramatic things, that is not my thing. I do physical comedy so I felt right at home.
Tori Spelling
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That Redford [Robert Redford] fellow is good. Brando [Marlon Brando]. Ah, Patton (1970) - George C. Scott. But the best of the bunch is Garner - James Garner. He can play anything. Comedy westerns, drama - you name it. Yeah, I have to say Garner is the be...
John Wayne
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Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they`re the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I`ve tried to combine all of their styl...
Tony Jaa
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[in 1915] Motion pictures is still in its infancy. In the next few years I expect to see so many improvements that you could then scarcely recognize the comedy of the present day.
Charlie Chaplin
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I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.
Steve Carell
Source: imdb.com
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I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.
Steve Carell
Source: imdb.com
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We`ve spent the better part of the year shooting our next movie, Sicko (2007). As we`ve done with our other films, we don`t discuss them while we are making them. If people ask, we tell them `Sicko` is a comedy about the 45 million people with no health c...
Michael Moore
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[On his movie Big Trouble (2002)] "It was more of a crappy farce than a black comedy. I took the job so I could work with such a great director. But in the end, it ended up living up it its name. I`ve learned that calling a film a black comedy is like the...
Ben Foster
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[On his movie Big Trouble (2002)] "It was more of a crappy farce than a black comedy. I took the job so I could work with such a great director. But in the end, it ended up living up it its name. I`ve learned that calling a film a black comedy is like the...
Ben Foster
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