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



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