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I was a huge fan of Steve Martin, as everyone I knew in comedy was.

Martin Short

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Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Christopher Walken

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'Wings' was a blessing, but it was also very difficult. Whenever you do situation comedy, no matter how excellent the execution - and we had a great cast and great writers - but the format is somewhat limited.

Tim Daly

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Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

Eugene Levy

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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.

Nick Frost

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I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

Simon Helberg

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I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.

Jason Statham

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'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

Woody Harrelson

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Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

Kriti Kharbanda

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I love being a part of a romantic comedy. I've done a lot of comedies but haven't always had a ton of romance in them.

Anna Faris

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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

Alex Karpovsky

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I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

Mike Birbiglia

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My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

Cheryl Hines

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I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

Norman Wisdom

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I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

Jessalyn Gilsig

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I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

Emily Perkins

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Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.

Nick Kroll

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Dark comedy helped me survive.

Trixie Mattel

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Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.

Phoebe Robinson

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The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

Kurt Braunohler

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'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

Matt LeBlanc

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It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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