Comedies Quotes (page 26)

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• good
• play
• likely

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director. Kevin McDonald

• drinking
• wild
• saying

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot. Bruce McCulloch

• likeness
• really
• comedy

I don't really like comedy. Bruce McCulloch

• watch
• fun
• bad

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material. Bruce McCulloch

• creativity
• likeness
• field

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. Jerry Stiller

• sometimes
• career
• opportunity

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies. Ben Stiller

• movie
• career
• make

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

• work
• creativity
• validating

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities. Ben Stiller

• drama
• dramas
• comparing

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit. Ben Stiller

• play
• time
• sad

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy. Warwick Davis

• play
• bird
• people

I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.' Eric McCormack

• play
• intense
• risk

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me. Sarah Polley

• heart
• job
• hell

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it! Jon Stewart

• romantic
• believe
• romantics

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not. Kate Hudson

• wears
• sketching
• wear

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch. Amy Poehler