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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I only direct in self-defense.

I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

I played comedies and dramas.

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

I really like just super dry comedy.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

I really think everything is fair game.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy because most of the time they're not romantic. They shouldn't be called romantic comedy.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.