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Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Tommy Chong

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Aaron Allston

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

Zach Cregger

My university work was not central to my education.

Italo Calvino

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Enya

As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

A Comedy of Murders

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

Shelley Berman

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

Pauly Shore

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

Tom Shales

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

Riz Ahmed

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

Sam Rockwell

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Takeshi Kitano

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.

Todd Phillips

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

Kurt Braunohler

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

Kevin Dillon

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Kevin Hart

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

Katherine Parkinson

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Michael Caine

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Reese Witherspoon

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

Adam McKay