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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

I got my start in silent radio.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.