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Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

All comedy comes from a dark place.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

A lot of time with comedy stuff, half of the stuff on my feed is: 'Haha, good for you!' 'Hey, thanks for making my day!' And the other half is: 'Defund the CBC!' 'All Newfoundlanders are hoagie-hogs!' It's just left and right and there's never anything in between.

A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.