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I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

— Stephen Gaghan

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

— Dee Wallace

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

— Melissa Fumero

I wasn't drawn to comedy: it was drawn to me - from fighting in school to going to jail, then joining the military and…

— Charlie Murphy

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet…

— Randeep Hooda

If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, all…

— Brandon T. Jackson

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

— Simon Bird

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it…

— Bo Burnham

I was a kid, and I would watch standup comics do the 'Tonight Show,' and if Johnny Carson liked you, he'd wave you over…

— Jo Koy

I would audition for all the school plays, and finally, my last year, I got the role as Pinocchio - finally.

— LeToya Luckett

People think that because I play comic roles, my films will have a comic flavour as well. But I am a student of drama.

— Satish Kaushik