Comedy Quotes
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TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow…
— Cameron Crowe
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The scariest thing about screening a comedy if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people…
— Tim Heidecker
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At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a…
— Tim Heidecker
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I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
— Tim Heidecker
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Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something…
— Kel Mitchell
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I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.
— Unknown Author
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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of…
— George Steiner
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If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
— George Clooney
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I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I…
— Reggie Watts
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I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.
— Will Arnett
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Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because…
— Tom Lehrer
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Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being…
— David Cross
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I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
— Guy Ritchie
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My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz…
— Judd Apatow
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I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this…
— Roseanne Barr
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