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You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries." "She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda. "You'll get five years." "She did them." From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl

Young Dr. Druthers had boasted of the fact that he was a proud and fine graduate of Slopoke Medical College in Slopoke County, somewhere on the border between North and South Carolina.

Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.

Your confidence in me is heartwarming. Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin.

You’re brave.” Lorna said. “I’m not,” I assured her, trying not to bristle. I hate being called brave. It’s almost as bad as inspiring.

You’re chasing one thing because you’re running away from something else. Even if you get what you want you’ll look back and regret this. Find out what you’re running away from and deal with that. Then maybe you can start enjoying the journey instead of fighting it out.

You’re one tough egg to crack. You know that? You’re like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

Your full of yourself." "Duhh... genetics man.

Your tills are talking to me and want me to take them home. Does this often happen?

Your toaster’s a puff.

You two have just reached the level of annoyingly cute.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

You will be so dead, dear Sister. Make telpon dari tadi kayak Kroasia ada di sebelah Jakarta aja. Huahahaha

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

All comedy comes from a dark place.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.