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| Bud Abbott |
You never heard of a comedy...
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| Don Adams |
Sometimes I wonder how I got...
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| Don Adams |
Sometimes I wonder how I got...
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| Carlos Alazraqui |
I started out with comedy in...
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| Sholom Aleichem |
Life is a dream for the...
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| Khandi Alexander |
This hiatus coming up I'm...
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| Khandi Alexander |
I feel that the work that...
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| Khandi Alexander |
I like comedy, I love it...
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| Fred Allen |
We are living in the machine...
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| Tim Allen |
While awaiting sentencing, I decided...
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| Woody Allen |
Comedy just pokes at problems...
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| Aaron Allston |
The difference between tragedy and...
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| Anthony Anderson |
Comedy is second nature for me...
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| Adam Arkin |
It's a lot of work and...
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| Desi Arnaz |
An actor who is good at...
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| Desi Arnaz |
At times we were criticized...
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| Desi Arnaz |
One of my biggest problems...
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| Will Arnett |
It doesn't look great if you...
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| Bea Arthur |
I suddenly realized that comedy...
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| Rowan Atkinson |
Monty Python crowd; half of...
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| George P. Baker |
There is no essential difference...
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| Stephen Baldwin |
Don't get me wrong, there are...
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| Christine Baranski |
It is really hard to do...
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| Matthew Barney |
Jackass: The Movie is great. I...
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| Todd Barry |
I'm traveling the world, ripping...
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| Jason Bateman |
A straight factor is important...
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| Alan Bates |
You can't always go by the...
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| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Friends applaud, the comedy is...
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| Jill Bennett |
We are in desperate need of...
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| Candice Bergen |
I certainly love doing comedy...
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| Shelley Berman |
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and...
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| Shelley Berman |
I will always love to perform...
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| Corbin Bernsen |
It's a great counter to doing...
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| Todd Berry |
I basically did comedy there...
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| Todd Berry |
I mean, I guess I started...
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| Todd Berry |
I would call it a comedy...
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| Todd Berry |
People don't understand that that's...
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| Todd Berry |
There seems to be more comedy...
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| Todd Berry |
Well, I have since seen you...
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| Jason Biggs |
Physical comedy is my favorite...
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| Theodore Bikel |
You always draw on your...
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| Bill Bixby |
The male image has been so...
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| Bjork |
The English can be a very...
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| William Peter Blatty |
And the sad truth is that...
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| Erma Bombeck |
There is a thin line that...
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| Elayne Boosler |
To listen to your own silence...
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| Timothy Bottoms |
The one that was most fun...
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| Jo Brand |
I had always fancied a go...
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| Jeff Bridges |
I love John Irving's stuff...
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| Mel Brooks |
Tragedy is when I cut my...
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| James L. Brooks |
I love romantic comedy, but I...
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| James L. Brooks |
I value comedy. I value...
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| Mel Brooks |
Life literally abounds in comedy...
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| Mel Brooks |
Rhetoric does not get you...
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| Albert Brooks |
Even if you didn't see the...
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| Pierce Brosnan |
Dark comedy is very difficult...
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| Lenny Bruce |
The only honest art form is...
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| Delta Burke |
I love comedy, so you want...
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| Carol Burnett |
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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| Steve Burton |
I do comedy shows. I make...
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| Carter Burwell |
I think I've only done one...
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| Ruth Buzzi |
I got everybody on my side...
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| Ruth Buzzi |
The original Dean Martin Comedy...
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| Sid Caesar |
Comedy has to be based on...
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| Michael Caine |
Anyone can write. But comedy...
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| Michael Caine |
Comedy is underrepresented in every...
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| Trishelle Cannatella |
Theo does comedy now, and he's...
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| Nick Cannon |
This is my chance to get...
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| Drew Carey |
Like I said, all comedy is...
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| Allan Carr |
I'd love to do acting, but...
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| Rodney Carrington |
I thought comedy would be the...
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| Angela Carter |
Comedy is tragedy that happens...
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| Dick Cavett |
Every student of comedy should...
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| Dick Cavett |
There's so much comedy on...
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| Dick Cavett |
Years have passed since I have...
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| Miguel de Cervantes |
The most difficult character in...
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| Charlie Chaplin |
All I need to make a...
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| Charlie Chaplin |
Life is a tragedy when seen...
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| Lita Grey Chaplin |
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in...
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| Chevy Chase |
The best comedy I ever did...
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| Morris Chestnut |
When you are the lead in...
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| Dominic Chianese |
The radio was my big influence...
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| Tommy Chong |
The funny thing is, Dennis...
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| John Cleese |
Comedy always works best when...
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| John Cleese |
I want to write a book...
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| John Cleese |
When the target audience is...
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| Kate Clinton |
I consider a CD or a...
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| Imogene Coca |
I never thought of myself in...
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| Tim Conway |
As a kid I was short...
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| Tim Conway |
I've known Harvey for over 40...
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| Rob Corddry |
I get all of my comedy...
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| Nikki Cox |
To be perfectly honest, drama...
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| Mackenzie Crook |
All the parts I get offered...
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| David Cross |
As for Tenacious D, of course...
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| Kaley Cuoco |
John was the smartest and most...
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| Arlene Dahl |
I considered the years in...
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| Jim Dale |
When I was nine, we'd take...
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| Brittany Daniel |
Comedy is so hard to do...
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| Bobby Darin |
I want to do drama, light...
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| Larry David |
I think that for the most...
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| Larry David |
It's that I wasn't suited to...
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| Andrew Denton |
You can (be a middle-aged...
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| Stephen Dorff |
I've mainly been in dramas, so...
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| Michael Dorn |
I love good comedy. I don't...
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| Illeana Douglas |
I'm a big fan of Albert...
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| Illeana Douglas |
I love sketch comedy. My real...
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| Anne Dudley |
My favorite work is The Full...
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| Will Durst |
Comedy is defiance. It's a...
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| Charles S. Dutton |
I'm trying my hand at writing...
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| Dick Van Dyke |
I learned everything that I...
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| Dick Van Dyke |
I learned everything that I...
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| Dick Van Dyke |
Oh, well, my first love is...
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| Leslie Easterbrook |
When I first started acting, I...
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| Roger Ebert |
If a movie isn't a hit...
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| Aaron Eckhart |
I don't do comedy so much...
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| Aaron Eckhart |
I'd like to do a romantic...
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| Adrian Edmondson |
Most modern comedy is crap.
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| Adrian Edmondson |
You're entering dangerous land when...
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| Carmen Electra |
I love doing comedy - I get...
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| Jenna Elfman |
I loved that about her because...
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| Jenna Elfman |
I'll probably stick to comedy...
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| Jenna Elfman |
In comedy, something may be...
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| Jenna Elfman |
It proved to me, though, that...
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| Jenna Elfman |
Comedy is much more challenging...
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| Jenna Elfman |
Especially while television I think...
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| Hector Elizondo |
You're at the top of your...
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| Hector Elizondo |
I think you can tell the...
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| David Ellis |
Comedy. I think that's something...
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| David Ellis |
You don't get a chance to...
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| Robert Englund |
I have an Italian comedy at...
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| Mike Epps |
They have what you call a...
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| Mike Epps |
I think in life, the sense...
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| Mike Epps |
I left Indiana, and I ain't...
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| Elliott Erwitt |
You can find pictures anywhere...
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| Kevin Eubanks |
I consider myself a serious...
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| Robert Evans |
There's nothing more difficult to...
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| Jamie Farr |
I did sketch comedy for years...
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| Jamie Farr |
If you want good sketches, go...
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| Bobby Farrelly |
In comedy, though, it's good...
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| Bobby Farrelly |
We love the Stooges, and young...
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| Chow Yun-Fat |
In the West audiences think I...
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| Marty Feldman |
Comedy, like sodomy, is an...
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| Will Ferrell |
A lot of people have gotten...
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| Will Ferrell |
All you have in comedy, in...
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| Will Ferrell |
I think a lot of the...
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| Will Ferrell |
Saturday Night Live is such a...
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| Tina Fey |
If you want to make an...
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| Sally Field |
There was really a snobbery...
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| Albert Finney |
When I read the script, I...
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| Linda Fiorentino |
I would like to do maybe...
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| Colin Firth |
Almost every comedy you see is...
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| Dario Fo |
With comedy I can search for...
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| Dario Fo |
Comedy makes the subversion of...
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| Dave Foley |
Stand-up comedy and poverty...
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| Faith Ford |
My theory is, if you can...
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| Faith Ford |
I think comedy is one of...
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| Milos Forman |
First of all, to defend my...
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| Al Franken |
Well, I think that there's a...
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| Al Franken |
Well, a lot of politics is...
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| Brendan Fraser |
I always approach comedy roles...
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| Dawn French |
The person I have admired the...
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| Christopher Fry |
In tragedy every moment is...
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| Christopher Fry |
Comedy is an escape, not from...
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| Neil Gaiman |
I wanted to write something...
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| Neil Gaiman |
There's a glorious sense of...
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| Charlotte Gainsbourg |
I thought people would ask me...
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| Jennifer Garner |
And you can't hide in a...
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| Ana Gasteyer |
I always loved comedy but I...
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| Sarah Michelle Gellar |
In television, women can really...
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| Sharon Gless |
You know what I would really...
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| Sharon Gless |
Yeah, even a black comedy...
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| Sharon Gless |
Women and minorities have excelled...
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| John Goodman |
I'd like to come back because...
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| Ryan Gosling |
I don't like to be...
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| Topher Grace |
I do like any kind of...
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| Kathy Griffin |
I'm also doing a special for...
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| John Guare |
Avoiding humiliation is the core...
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| Val Guest |
At those times I got into...
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| Val Guest |
I had a terrible job letting...
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| Val Guest |
I used to write bits and...
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| Paul Guilfoyle |
You know, dramas are much more...
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| Steve Guttenberg |
It's good Xerox is known for...
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| Steve Guttenberg |
Unless you're Jack Lemmon or...
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| Tony Hancock |
It's both funny and sad which...
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| Colleen Haskell |
Comedy is so fun. I don't...
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| Noah Hathaway |
I don't want to sit and...
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| Salma Hayek |
My new movie, Fools Rush In...
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| Aldous Huxley |
We participate in a tragedy...
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| Eric Idle |
To me, the musical is best...
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| Jason Isaacs |
I don't know if it's a...
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| Brion James |
You know, stand-up comedy is...
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| Louise Jameson |
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly...
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| Norman Jewison |
I'm in the mood for another...
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| Chuck Jones |
Comedy is a very, very, very...
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| Chuck Jones |
Comedy is unusual people in...
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| Chuck Jones |
Jackie Gleason said that comedy...
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| Davy Jones |
I would say that fifty percent...
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| Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
It's a director's job to tell...
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| Kato Kaelin |
I'm doing comedy development at...
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| Paul Kane |
I love a good laugh as...
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| Casey Kasum |
I was drafted and went to...
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| Stacy Keach |
I think so. I can't think...
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| Catherine Keener |
I think people are always...
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| Garrison Keillor |
God writes a lot of comedy...
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| Moira Kelly |
I can cry at the drop...
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| Walter Kerr |
Harpo Marx looks like a...
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| Val Kilmer |
Well I sure had been looking...
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| Val Kilmer |
Partly because the town is...
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| Val Kilmer |
It was very serious and I...
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| Ben Kingsley |
Fifteen years before I became...
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| Ben Kingsley |
I think that you can fall...
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| Ben Kingsley |
But comedy I'd love to do...
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| Klaus Kinski |
About 25 years ago, I was...
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| Robert Klein |
And the only studies were...
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| Joe Klein |
You can't get all of your...
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| Lisa Kudrow |
Blonde is dumb comedy, red...
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| Artie Lange |
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness...
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| Nicholas Lea |
Comedy and drama are both...
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| Matt LeBlanc |
In comedy, you have to be...
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| Matt LeBlanc |
And if you have great writing...
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| Matt LeBlanc |
Comedy is just to me, maybe...
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| John Leeson |
It was just at the end...
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| Vivien Leigh |
Comedy is much more difficult...
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| Jack Lemmon |
It's hard enough to write a...
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| Thomas Lennon |
There was so long from when...
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| Ted Levine |
Good comedy is ageless.
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| Ted Levine |
I really enjoy comedy. It's a...
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| Barry Levinson |
Apparently nobody really read it...
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| Eugene Levy |
In ten minutes, I'm thinking...
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| Jerry Lewis |
A woman doing comedy doesn't...
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| John Lithgow |
What you aspire to on a...
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| John Lithgow |
It's a very tough time for...
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| Mario Lopez |
Right now, I'd like to just...
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| Courtney Love |
I think Andy Kaufman is to...
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| Ernst Lubitsch |
Nobody should try to play...
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| Matt Lucas |
I mean comedy is something...
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| Matt Lucas |
When I left school I was...
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| Josh Lucas |
Comedy is so hard; it's so...
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| Paul Lynde |
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It...
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| Seth MacFarlane |
With any half-hour comedy, it...
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| Sophie Marceau |
As you know it is a...
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| Cheech Marin |
Our first gig was a battle...
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| Marc Maron |
The development of the comedy...
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| Marc Maron |
Comedy is obviously a matter...
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| Steve Martin |
What is comedy? Comedy is the...
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| Steve Martin |
Comedy may be big business but...
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| Don Martin |
There's always been physical suffering...
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| Tim Matheson |
With comedy, you really want...
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| Jessie Matthews |
I had a flair for comedy...
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| Melissa Auf der Maur |
Well, being a Canadian, I love...
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| Bruce McCulloch |
Is it spoken word? Kinda, but...
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| Bruce McCulloch |
I don't really like comedy.
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| Bruce McCulloch |
I don't love comedy but I...
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| Bruce McCulloch |
I got involved in improv...
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| Kevin McDonald |
Yes, they allowed us to play...
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| Bryant H. McGill |
Why do we laugh at such...
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| Roger McGough |
If I do a poetry reading...
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| Matthew McGrory |
I would love to do a...
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| Ismail Merchant |
This is one of his most...
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| Dennis Miller |
I'm a comedian, for God's sake...
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| Warren Mitchell |
Comedy comes from conflict, from...
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| Radha Mitchell |
Life is neither comedy or...
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| Kel Mitchell |
Every movie I do, or when...
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| Kel Mitchell |
We didn't know anything about...
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| Moliere |
The duty of comedy is to...
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| Moliere |
As the purpose of comedy is...
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| Eugenio Montale |
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did...
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| Rick Moody |
I'm trying to make sure that...
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| Ron Moody |
My portrayal of Fagin was all...
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| Julianne Moore |
You know, comedy's hard. With...
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| Mary Tyler Moore |
The kinds of shows that seem...
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| Julianne Moore |
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And...
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| Eric Morecambe |
Together with script writers Syd...
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| Robert Moses |
If you elect a matinee idol...
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| Cillian Murphy |
There's a lot of comedy in...
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| Benito Mussolini |
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy...
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| Mike Myers |
Comedy. It was just huge in...
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| V. S. Naipaul |
One always writes comedy at...
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| Leslie Nielsen |
The violence or the vaudeville...
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| Robert De Niro |
When you make a drama, you...
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| Denis Norden |
The comedians all finished their...
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| Denis Norden |
And if you can offer an...
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| Graham Norton |
I was a failed actor but...
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| Maureen O'Hara |
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick...
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| Laurence Olivier |
The office of drama is to...
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| Patton Oswalt |
I mean, all alternative comedy...
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| Brian De Palma |
I hadn't done just a straight...
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| Sara Paretsky |
Reviewers said Ghost Country was...
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| Trey Parker |
It's funny because I think a...
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| Alexander Payne |
A pitfall of making a comedy...
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| Austin Peck |
Especially when you deal with...
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| Austin Peck |
I think comedy is more my...
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| Simon Pegg |
There is a universality to...
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| Amy Poehler |
Improvisation is almost like the...
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| Janet Street-Porter |
The day of the wedding went...
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| Parker Posey |
I can do comedy, so people...
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| Dawn Powell |
The basis of tragedy is man's...
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| Dawn Powell |
The human comedy is always...
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| J. B. Priestley |
Comedy, we may say, is society...
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| Bill Pullman |
With While You Were Sleeping...
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| Paul Putner |
I wear so many disguises on...
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| Gilda Radner |
Comedy is very controlling - you...
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| Gilda Radner |
Comedy is very controlling - you...
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| Harold Ramis |
The first comedy screenplay that...
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| Harold Ramis |
You just make sure you don't...
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| Carl Reiner |
I think that comedy really...
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| Ivan Reitman |
Everybody says how hard comedy...
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| Ivan Reitman |
I never like to do parodies...
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| Ivan Reitman |
In a comedy it helps enhance...
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| Ivan Reitman |
Then my first film was...
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| Buddy Rice |
Between us and the writers, it...
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| Natasha Richardson |
I've played comedy before but...
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| Jay Roach |
My favorite laser disk ever...
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| Jay Roach |
Sometimes I would like the...
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| Mo Rocca |
Honestly we never lied to...
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| Mo Rocca |
Hypocrisy is great fodder for...
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| Joe Rogan |
Comedy is really not like any...
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| Joe Rogan |
The Comedy Store in LA, it's...
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| Joe Rogan |
To me, comedy is a great...
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| Ray Romano |
If I'm really considering doing...
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| Stephen Root |
It's easier to play a dim...
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| Tim Roth |
Doing comedy for film is...
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| Richard Russo |
I think it would be harder...
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| Richard Russo |
If you work at comedy too...
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| Meg Ryan |
Clearly romantic comedy is my...
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| Mark Rylance |
But I find with Francis Bacon...
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| Bob Saget |
Now people want what the movie...
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| Bob Saget |
I think when you dissect a...
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| Bob Saget |
Yet there are some people...
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| Bob Saget |
The nature of comedy is 'just...
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| Bob Saget |
I'm doing 5000 seat theaters...
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| Bob Saget |
25, 30 years ago, that meant...
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| Pete Sampras |
People know me. I'm not going...
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| Adam Sandler |
My comedy is different every...
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| Adam Sandler |
My comedy is different every...
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| Adam Sandler |
The problem with me, as far...
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| Susan Sarandon |
When I tell people I'm a...
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| Rick Schroder |
I was never really comfortable...
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| Izabella Scorupco |
Well my biggest dream is to...
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| Sean William Scott |
A lot of the stuff that...
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| Sean William Scott |
I just thought it could make...
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| Jerry Seinfeld |
The Four Levels of Comedy...
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| Yahoo Serious |
All the jokes in my films...
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| Peter Shaffer |
Black Comedy is a farce that...
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| Garry Shandling |
Without comedy as a defense...
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| Harry Shearer |
Well Washington DC what are...
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| Pauly Shore |
My mom and dad are both...
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| Neil Simon |
You must realize that honorary...
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| Douglas Sirk |
Yes, I was hired by Universal...
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| Todd Solondz |
All I mean is, I'm not...
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| Stephen Sondheim |
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein...
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| Barry Sonnenfeld |
Michael Jackson wanted to be...
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| Terry Southern |
When Kubrick decided to go the...
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| Aries Spears |
There's got to be structure...
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| Aries Spears |
Eddie Murphy was the Michael...
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| Aries Spears |
Because it's uncensored cable, I...
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| Sylvester Stallone |
When I tried to branch out...
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| David Steinberg |
I started writing this feature...
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| Jon Stewart |
There are a hell of a...
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| Jerry Stiller |
Creative comedy is like growing...
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| Ben Stiller |
I don't devalue comedy as...
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| Ben Stiller |
I grew up wanting to make...
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| Matt Stone |
We were the only ones...
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| Susan Sullivan |
I think if I have any...
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| Nicole Sullivan |
If you want to be an...
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| Wanda Sykes |
And then also I think it's...
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| Wanda Sykes |
I think it's because my comedy...
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| Wanda Sykes |
It seems like when I first...
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| Wanda Sykes |
Then you had people who wanted...
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| Wislawa Szymborska |
In every tragedy, an element...
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| Jeffrey Tambor |
I remember going to Bob...
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| Christine Taylor |
My family's always been really...
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| Twyla Tharp |
Any comic is a tragic soul...
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| Alan Thicke |
It's always been said that...
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| James Thurber |
The appreciative smile, the chuckle...
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| James Thurber |
Comedy has to be done en...
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| James Thurber |
The only rules comedy can...
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| Carrot Top |
My real name is Scott Thompson...
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| Jeanne Tripplehorn |
I'd really been wanting to do...
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| Chris Tucker |
It takes intelligence to make...
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| Aisha Tyler |
Comedy is ugly. It's honest...
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| Peter Ustinov |
Comedy is simply a funny way...
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| Jim Varney |
I started to do a study...
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| Johnny Vegas |
I also want to return to...
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| Christopher Walken |
Yeah, well I've always played...
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| David Walliams |
I would recommend that anyone...
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| Horace Walpole |
This world is a comedy to...
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| Horace Walpole |
Life is a comedy for those...
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| Horace Walpole |
Life is a tragedy for those...
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| Horace Walpole |
The world is a comedy to...
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| Horace Walpole |
Plot, rules, nor even poetry...
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| Julie Walters |
I think comedy's something you...
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| Rob Walton |
Comedy, at least the way I...
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| Burt Ward |
Why would they have gone to...
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| Wendy Wasserstein |
The real reason for comedy is...
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| Paul Watzlawick |
Above all, in comedy, and...
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| Keenen Ivory Wayans |
I think a lot comes from...
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| Sigourney Weaver |
I've been very fortunate to be...
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| Chris Wedge |
Fox came to us with the...
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| Max Weinberg |
I take my fun very seriously...
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| Dianne Wiest |
I had to choose, I'd be...
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| Gene Wilder |
I'd like to do a comedy...
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| Fred Willard |
Someone I've always admired is...
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| Kenneth Williams |
People need to be peppered or...
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| Esther Williams |
I never walked the streets of...
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| Robin Williams |
Comedy is acting out optimism.
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| Owen Wilson |
You can think of Hollywood as...
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| Luke Wilson |
Especially with a comedy, you've...
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| Norman Wisdom |
I've an idea for doing a...
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| Reese Witherspoon |
It's fun to do a comedy...
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| Dick Wolf |
Drama or comedy programming is...
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| Donald Wolfit |
Dying is easy; comedy is hard...
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| Douglas Wood |
I am a big fan of...
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| Pia Zadora |
I like to see love stories...
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| Jerry Zucker |
But in terms of satire and...
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