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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was something I could do. I sort of meandered and really had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I had a go at stand-up, and I was sort of okay at it. I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. So I'd say it was probably more about that than anything.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Beloved King of Comedy.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.