I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
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RICK RIORDAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
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GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a ver...
CHARLES SOULE If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars ar...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn...
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BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serio...
ALDEN EHRENREICH I've always been a big fan of Rachel McAdams. I saw her for the first time in 'Mean Girls,...
CASSI THOMSON What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself inclu...
BENJAMIN WATSON My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f...
CYRILLE AIMEE My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It&...
LIU WEN I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,...
JOELLE CARTER There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for com...
CILLIAN MURPHY I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.
CARMEN ELECTRA 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
KAITLYN DEVER I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin...
ALAN ARKIN I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an ido...
JOHN LOGAN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl...
HOLLY SCHINDLER 'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy a...
JONAH HILL Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got cra...
ED WEEKS When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live...
LATOYA JACKSON I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives...
DAVID MCCALLUM 'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our...
SCOTT ADSIT I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefull...
ACE FREHLEY 'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.
JASON DAVID FRANK I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I gue...
JARED PADALECKI I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d...
SHIRLEY MANSON I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side...
EVE I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced mayb...
ERIK HASSLE I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country...
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TAYLOR NEGRON I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All li...
ANGIE THOMAS Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilis...
MATT GROENING I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama...
MIREILLE ENOS I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's some...
MICHAEL LEHMANN That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old ...
SAMI GAYLE I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break o...
BETH GRANT I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge...
BEN ZOBRIST I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big ...
KARA DIOGUARDI I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you...
ROB MCELHENNEY I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the gender...
ABBI JACOBSON I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on th...
MARIA SEMPLE I feel like I'm just doing a job. It's amazing to think that you affect other peoples' l...
KIP PARDUE I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, re...
ASHLEY WAGNER La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's ...
CALEB JOHNSON I like gross generalizations...I also like disgusting specifics!
JOSH STERN The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
DIONNE WARWICK I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. ...
KAREN ELSON I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
KEVIN GATES It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I ...
JULIA SAWALHA But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so h...
ELLEN PAGE I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for the...
TARA REID The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There...
STEPHEN COLBERT I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hanke...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarlies...
GILLIAN WELCH That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there...
JASON SUDEIKIS We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot ...
THURSTON MOORE A lot of new artists, especially girl artists, feel pressure to be so 'media perfect' and ...
MAREN MORRIS I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious though...
MARIA BAMFORD You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like th...
TRENT REZNOR I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do o...
JACOB ARTIST I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have i...
SEAN HAYES I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint ...
KAREN O There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good c...
ELLEN PAGE You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff alwa...
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ISRAEL ZANGWILL I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens...
EARL SWEATSHIRT I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I fee...
IGGY AZALEA Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through...
LUIS FONSI I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru...
ARUNDHATI ROY It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a who...
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DAVE BLOOM The people from church see us in a totally different environment. But I have to censor myself on the...
DAVE BLOOM If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
PAUL BLOOM There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proporti...
ORLANDO BLOOM Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
ORLANDO BLOOM I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the thing...
AMY BLOOM I think his modus operandi has evolved into, you can just try to do the best you can every single da...
LARRY BLOOM I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whol...
RON BLOOM Obviously, this is a continuation of dollar woes.
DAVID BLOOM I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone...
ORLANDO BLOOM Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre...
ALLAN BLOOM It really isn't about winning the medal for me.
JEREMY BLOOM I'll have a week to put the cleats on and get ready. Is a week enough? I don't see why not. I've bee...
JEREMY BLOOM I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ...
JEREMY BLOOM Well, this is America, so obviously football is the Big Daddy in this country. It gets the most atte...
JEREMY BLOOM Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky,...
PAUL BLOOM I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
ORLANDO BLOOM Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m...
ORLANDO BLOOM If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; ...
AMY BLOOM When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
ORLANDO BLOOM Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have ...
PAUL BLOOM