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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

How the hell do you wake up dead?

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love Childrens Hospital. That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it. I definitely want to do that, because I tend to... when I put things in my own words, it comes out way better. It flows naturally, it just feels better. I can put some weight into the words. Even in comedy, it just comes better.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.