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A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.