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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for everybody, so maybe mom movies aren't for everybody.

Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

Michael Pitt is amazing. His physical comedy is extraordinary; he's so committed and so willing to play within the scenes. It makes you feel very free to also explore.

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

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

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

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

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 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.