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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
YAHOO SERIOUS Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair gla...
JOEL MCHALE I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
UZO ADUBA My brother and I had a reputation for telling real bad jokes. We told the worst jokes in town. As a ...
WALLY HIRSTEIN I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something ex...
BRUCE ROBINSON![]()
I try not to laugh at my own jokes, but we all know I'm hilarious.
ANONYMOUS![]()
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even...
ALBERT BROOKS The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thi...
BEN EDLUND Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
TERRY CREWS![]()
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER![]()
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
CAT STEVENS I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
YUSUF ISLAM![]()
I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all thes...
SUNNY DEOL For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening...
JIM GAFFIGAN![]()
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev...
STEVE MARTIN![]()
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW![]()
Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON Just don’t give up on us. Please, don’t give up. I’m a shell without you, Alayna. I can barely...
LAURELIN PAIGE I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write...
JEFF KINNEY![]()
I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY![]()
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a s...
CECILY STRONG![]()
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ...
JAMES MCAVOY![]()
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramat...
KAPIL SHARMA![]()
I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're...
BRIE LARSON![]()
I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fal...
BRIAN ANDREAS I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS Yeah it was different, but it was the formation the coach wanted us to be put in. He told me just to...
CLINT DEMPSEY![]()
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn'...
CHRIS HARDWICK![]()
I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit ...
CAMERON MATHISON The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I woul...
EDIE FALCO The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fa...
EDWARD BURNS![]()
I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a ligh...
DAVID THEWLIS![]()
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT![]()
I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my come...
T. J. MILLER I feel like I'm a guy that can step up and make big plays. I can go out there and try to make a big ...
BRANDON CALEB The last thing I am is a bigot. One of my problems is that I think I'm a comedian. It was all jokes....
JEANNINE GAGE I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON![]()
I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh...
EMINEM One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES![]()
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t...
ADAM MCKAY![]()
My mom, you can't go wrong with my mom. I mean, she's brilliant. She's taught me a lot, you know, ju...
JACK OSBOURNE![]()
I try to hold my charisma in check.
GEORGE BUSH![]()
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.
TOM STOPPARD Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel li...
ALEXANDER PAYNE![]()
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet short...
MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)![]()
Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH![]()
What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS![]()
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles ...
AUSTIN STOWELL![]()
If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way oth...
EMRAAN HASHMI I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might...
JON FAVREAU I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ...
AMANDA BYNES Maybe they just got caught up in the hype. I'm just trying to keep my head straight. It's just going...
GARY CISMESIA I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.
URSULA ANDRESS I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, lo...
DANIEL WU Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL![]()
I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very...
BRANDON LEE I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several ti...
LENNY HENRY I'm not snobby about my movies; I just love all films.
RILEY KEOUGH I still try out for the bigger films, because they don't know me usually. But to the smaller films, ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT![]()
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedia...
DEMETRI MARTIN![]()
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin...
ALAN ARKIN![]()
My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulde...
SUNNY DEOL I just line up and play. It's all one big season to me.
KASEY STUDDARD![]()
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy a...
JONAH HILL I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH![]()
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emoti...
JOHN CASSAVETES When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
ROBERT LLOYD I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I jus...
ALBERT OEHLEN![]()
I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I fee...
ALEXANDER PAYNE![]()
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a st...
STEVEN MOFFAT![]()
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a...
MONTGOMERY CLIFT Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my pare...
ILANA GLAZER I try to not have it be the focal point in my mind, but I realize that it's a violent sport and seri...
TROY VINCENT![]()
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM![]()
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN![]()
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
WALTER CRONKITE![]()
Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
WALTER CRONKITE
YAHOO SERIOUS Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair gla...
JOEL MCHALE I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
UZO ADUBA My brother and I had a reputation for telling real bad jokes. We told the worst jokes in town. As a ...
WALLY HIRSTEIN I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something ex...
BRUCE ROBINSON
I try not to laugh at my own jokes, but we all know I'm hilarious. ANONYMOUS
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even... ALBERT BROOKS The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thi...
BEN EDLUND Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte. TERRY CREWS
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st... CAT STEVENS I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
YUSUF ISLAM
I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all thes... SUNNY DEOL For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening...
JIM GAFFIGAN
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev... STEVE MARTIN
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW
Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON Just don’t give up on us. Please, don’t give up. I’m a shell without you, Alayna. I can barely...
LAURELIN PAIGE I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write...
JEFF KINNEY
I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a s...
CECILY STRONG
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ... JAMES MCAVOY
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramat...
KAPIL SHARMA
I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're... BRIE LARSON
I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fal... BRIAN ANDREAS I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS Yeah it was different, but it was the formation the coach wanted us to be put in. He told me just to...
CLINT DEMPSEY
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn'... CHRIS HARDWICK
I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit ... CAMERON MATHISON The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I woul...
EDIE FALCO The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fa...
EDWARD BURNS
I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a ligh... DAVID THEWLIS
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT
I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my come... T. J. MILLER I feel like I'm a guy that can step up and make big plays. I can go out there and try to make a big ...
BRANDON CALEB The last thing I am is a bigot. One of my problems is that I think I'm a comedian. It was all jokes....
JEANNINE GAGE I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh... EMINEM One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t... ADAM MCKAY
My mom, you can't go wrong with my mom. I mean, she's brilliant. She's taught me a lot, you know, ju... JACK OSBOURNE
I try to hold my charisma in check. GEORGE BUSH
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. TOM STOPPARD Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel li...
ALEXANDER PAYNE
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet short... MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH
What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles ...
AUSTIN STOWELL
If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way oth... EMRAAN HASHMI I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might...
JON FAVREAU I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ...
AMANDA BYNES Maybe they just got caught up in the hype. I'm just trying to keep my head straight. It's just going...
GARY CISMESIA I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.
URSULA ANDRESS I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, lo...
DANIEL WU Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL
I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very... BRANDON LEE I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several ti...
LENNY HENRY I'm not snobby about my movies; I just love all films.
RILEY KEOUGH I still try out for the bigger films, because they don't know me usually. But to the smaller films, ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedia... DEMETRI MARTIN
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin... ALAN ARKIN
My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulde... SUNNY DEOL I just line up and play. It's all one big season to me.
KASEY STUDDARD
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy a... JONAH HILL I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emoti... JOHN CASSAVETES When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
ROBERT LLOYD I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I jus...
ALBERT OEHLEN
I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I fee...
ALEXANDER PAYNE
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a st... STEVEN MOFFAT
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a... MONTGOMERY CLIFT Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my pare...
ILANA GLAZER I try to not have it be the focal point in my mind, but I realize that it's a violent sport and seri...
TROY VINCENT
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. PATRICIA MCCORMICK I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. WALTER CRONKITE
Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened. WALTER CRONKITE
