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Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

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

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

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

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

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

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

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 drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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 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.