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I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
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JULIANNE MOORE For comedy, timing is key.
BENJAMIN STOCKHAM![]()
I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting c...
SANDRA BULLOCK![]()
I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD.
SANTOSH KALWAR![]()
Funny is funny is funny.
BOB NEWHART![]()
People are born with comedy timing, it's very hard to learn and he was just naturally gifted in that...
BARBARA FELDON![]()
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
PETER USTINOV![]()
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious
PETER USTINOV To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. They’r...
CONAN O'BRIEN Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy an...
ROBERT KLEIN![]()
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
DR. SEUSS Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it...
BRUCE MCCULLOCH They took us out of our game, completely out of our game. There were lots of very hard fouls. Lots a...
DENISE TAYLOR![]()
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
JERRY SEINFELD Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e...
PAUL FEIG I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you...
RALPH BROWN Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS![]()
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
CASEY WILSON That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hil...
CYRUS BROACHA The forecast is easy. Rain. Lots and lots of rain.
DIANA HENDERSON There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing....
WANDA SYKES Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.
CHARLENE TILTON I have seen their hard work pay off and witnessed, their expansion and full parking lots.
AMY PIETSCH The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may cho...
GARY D. SCHMIDT It's a hard thing to lose two young lives. There have been lots of hugs and lots of tears.
ANDREW STUCKEY![]()
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of...
JACK LEMMON It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of...
JACK LEMON Having parked up at the entrance to the football ground I’d like my coffin to be taken from the he...
NICK JOHN WHITTLE The countryside is incredibly boring. There's lots of shagging, lots of murders, lots of sarcasm, lo...
TOM BAKER Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
BRYAN CALLEN![]()
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t...
ADAM MCKAY![]()
The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags ... then the second part is not a co...
ROBERTO BENIGNI It seems like every game we've played with Jefferson has been hard-fought. There's lots of hitting, ...
FALLON MCCLANAHAN I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something ex...
BRUCE ROBINSON![]()
I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search f...
BEE WILSON I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
UZO ADUBA Dirty hands are a sign of good clean work
MOHAMMED S. HASSAN Life is a tragedy without comedy, but the comedy is nothing but the truth and reality only.
ANUJ SOMANY![]()
Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.
CARROLL BRYANT One book that I read called “Comedy Writing Secrets” by Helitzer made a great point. He said tha...
DAVID DEANGELO![]()
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, dee...
PARKER POSEY![]()
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic...
MATT DILLON Lots of farms and lots of growers.
JOE MOTA My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work ...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON A big chest, a big mouth, 90 percent memory, 10 percent intelligence, lots of hard work, and somethi...
ENRICO CARUSO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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ELI ROTH I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
JAMES L. BROOKS Throughout my life, I've met lots and lots and lots of people. And you come to realize that througho...
TOMMY POLO![]()
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w...
MAGGIE SMITH![]()
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a we...
IVAN REITMAN![]()
I would like to work in both comedy and drama.
DANIELA BOBADILLA Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha...
NORM MACDONALD![]()
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be ove...
JENNIFER LOPEZ![]()
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'...
JACK LEMMON And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD![]()
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the m...
ALVAR AALTO Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
LISA KUDROW![]()
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to every...
LINDA GRAY Timing is everything.
MOLLY SIMS![]()
Timing is everything.
TOMMY SHAW![]()
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA![]()
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
JOHN GUARE![]()
It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.
BRYAN ADAMS![]()
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy...
MICHAEL KEATON Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her wor...
PAUL LIEBERSTEIN![]()
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
KATE MCKINNON![]()
Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how ...
CHEVY CHASE You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch come...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy ...
CAYDEN BOYD![]()
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and faken...
LOUIS C. K. Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was ...
RAMI MALEK![]()
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where ...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN![]()
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
EARL BUTZ I'm getting lots of support and also lots of backlash.
DAN SHANAHAN There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordin...
THOMAS J. STANLEY What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.
BILL ENGVALL Scouts and college recruiters realized Canada was an untapped market. We have a gold mine of athlete...
JEFF ZIMMERMAN![]()
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satiris...
TREY PARKER I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today,
GARRY MARSHALL![]()
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical ...
RHYS DARBY![]()
If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working
JOSH STERN The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thi...
BEN EDLUND![]()
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like ...
MIKE NICHOLS Patience, lots of praise, tenderness and perseverance, plus a cookie, work wonders.
BOB ARNOLD It's lots of work to pack up and go out to eat.
DENISE DILLON Watch, Listen, & Learn . . .
Broaden your sense of humor by watching funny movies and shows...
SUSAN C. YOUNG I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ...
ANDY DALY I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it'...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
MARTIN MCDONAGH![]()
The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little atte...
MARY TYLER MOORE What Delaware needs to stay competitive is a whole new scene, and that is to create a entertainment ...
CLAIRE M. DEMATTEIS I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of o...
SUSAN KELECHI WATSON
KELLY JONES
I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes. DOLLY PARTON
(Comedy) is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right... JULIANNE MOORE For comedy, timing is key.
BENJAMIN STOCKHAM
I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting c... SANDRA BULLOCK
I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD. SANTOSH KALWAR
Funny is funny is funny. BOB NEWHART
People are born with comedy timing, it's very hard to learn and he was just naturally gifted in that... BARBARA FELDON
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. PETER USTINOV
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious PETER USTINOV To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. They’r...
CONAN O'BRIEN Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy an...
ROBERT KLEIN
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny. DR. SEUSS Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it...
BRUCE MCCULLOCH They took us out of our game, completely out of our game. There were lots of very hard fouls. Lots a...
DENISE TAYLOR
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. JERRY SEINFELD Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e...
PAUL FEIG I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you...
RALPH BROWN Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages. CASEY WILSON That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hil...
CYRUS BROACHA The forecast is easy. Rain. Lots and lots of rain.
DIANA HENDERSON There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing....
WANDA SYKES Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.
CHARLENE TILTON I have seen their hard work pay off and witnessed, their expansion and full parking lots.
AMY PIETSCH The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may cho...
GARY D. SCHMIDT It's a hard thing to lose two young lives. There have been lots of hugs and lots of tears.
ANDREW STUCKEY
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of... JACK LEMMON It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of...
JACK LEMON Having parked up at the entrance to the football ground I’d like my coffin to be taken from the he...
NICK JOHN WHITTLE The countryside is incredibly boring. There's lots of shagging, lots of murders, lots of sarcasm, lo...
TOM BAKER Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
BRYAN CALLEN
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t... ADAM MCKAY
The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags ... then the second part is not a co... ROBERTO BENIGNI It seems like every game we've played with Jefferson has been hard-fought. There's lots of hitting, ...
FALLON MCCLANAHAN I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something ex...
BRUCE ROBINSON
I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search f... BEE WILSON I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
UZO ADUBA Dirty hands are a sign of good clean work
MOHAMMED S. HASSAN Life is a tragedy without comedy, but the comedy is nothing but the truth and reality only.
ANUJ SOMANY
Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick. CARROLL BRYANT One book that I read called “Comedy Writing Secrets” by Helitzer made a great point. He said tha...
DAVID DEANGELO
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, dee... PARKER POSEY
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... MATT DILLON Lots of farms and lots of growers.
JOE MOTA My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work ...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON A big chest, a big mouth, 90 percent memory, 10 percent intelligence, lots of hard work, and somethi...
ENRICO CARUSO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's... ELI ROTH I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
JAMES L. BROOKS Throughout my life, I've met lots and lots and lots of people. And you come to realize that througho...
TOMMY POLO
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w... MAGGIE SMITH
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a we... IVAN REITMAN
I would like to work in both comedy and drama. DANIELA BOBADILLA Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha...
NORM MACDONALD
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be ove... JENNIFER LOPEZ
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'... JACK LEMMON And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the m... ALVAR AALTO Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
LISA KUDROW
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to every... LINDA GRAY Timing is everything.
MOLLY SIMS
Timing is everything. TOMMY SHAW
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. JOHN GUARE
It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in. BRYAN ADAMS
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy... MICHAEL KEATON Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her wor...
PAUL LIEBERSTEIN
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny. KATE MCKINNON
Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how ... CHEVY CHASE You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch come...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy ...
CAYDEN BOYD
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and faken... LOUIS C. K. Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was ...
RAMI MALEK
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. STEVE MARTIN I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
EARL BUTZ I'm getting lots of support and also lots of backlash.
DAN SHANAHAN There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordin...
THOMAS J. STANLEY What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.
BILL ENGVALL Scouts and college recruiters realized Canada was an untapped market. We have a gold mine of athlete...
JEFF ZIMMERMAN
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satiris... TREY PARKER I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today,
GARRY MARSHALL
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical ... RHYS DARBY
If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working JOSH STERN The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thi...
BEN EDLUND
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like ... MIKE NICHOLS Patience, lots of praise, tenderness and perseverance, plus a cookie, work wonders.
BOB ARNOLD It's lots of work to pack up and go out to eat.
DENISE DILLON Watch, Listen, & Learn . . .
Broaden your sense of humor by watching funny movies and shows...
SUSAN C. YOUNG I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ...
ANDY DALY I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it'...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
MARTIN MCDONAGH
The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little atte... MARY TYLER MOORE What Delaware needs to stay competitive is a whole new scene, and that is to create a entertainment ...
CLAIRE M. DEMATTEIS I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of o...
SUSAN KELECHI WATSON
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War... 
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. 
Most jokes state a bitter truth. 
My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the co... 
I would consider myself more a passionate centrist. 
Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately. 
My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm w... 
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I woul... 
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. 
I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as... 
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. 
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. 
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. 
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. I... 