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Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

Most modern comedy is crap.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Movies take a lot of time to make, so when I sign onto a project, I ask, do I want to dedicate a lot of time to this world? And more so, I look at what I need for me. Do I want to make a comedy? Do I want to make a drama? What do I need? Am I in the right headspace to do this role? And then politics come into consideration, too.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

My background is in musical comedy.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think that it's one of the best ever.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it.

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.