Comedy Quotes

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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and… — Mark Rylance
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because… — Naomi Watts
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… — Paul Watzlawick
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have… — Ben Stiller
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in… — Douglas Sirk
Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with… — Sean William Scott
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think… — Jay Roach
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy. — Ivan Reitman
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation… — Sally Field
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor. — Terry Southern
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a… — Bob Saget
People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little… — Mindy Kaling
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're… — Trey Parker
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane… — Christine Vachon
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose… — Michael Frayn
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it,… — N.D. Wilson
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy. — Robert Klein
I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies. — Johnny Knoxville
I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and… — Todd Barry

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