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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

I've always been very open about it. I've been very open about my addiction, about my panic disorder. But I think that transparency is what can separate you from others because I think that is where comedy is going.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. I'm looking for something a bit tougher, more muscle mass, something small, but the thing is, I get all the best comedy scripts, I don't get all the best drama scripts. So I'll just go with what's the best script.

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

I've never laughed a woman into bed, but I've laughed one out of bed many times.

I've never tried fatback. Probably 'cause it's called fatback. I don't know which word creeps me out more: fat or back. Why don't they just throw in "hairy" while they're at it? "This is some delicious hairy fatback.

I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

I've talked to a lot of other women in the field of comedy and none of us feel like being a woman has been a barrier to success in our lives. I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since. So I'm not surprised by all the articles, but I don't know if it's necessarily true. It's not like we haven't been around.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.