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I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on Sordid Lives, and I broke on The Office. Those are the only two times in my life.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating. And neither is conducive to spontaneity, you know. Comedy makes you very, very neurotic because you think, I - but did I nail it?

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I only direct in self-defense.

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

I played comedies and dramas.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I really like just super dry comedy.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

I really think everything is fair game.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

I see parody as another form of comedy.