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"Good comedians are great philosophers."
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"I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice."
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"I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it."
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"I don't do drama. I'm a comedian."
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"If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing."
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"Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success."
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"Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker."
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"I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up."
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"Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh."
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"I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos."
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"I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old."
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"Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance."
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"I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression."
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"I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors to do that . . . It's funny. You say that people prefer a tasteful formalism - as opposed to an oppressive formalism - but I do feel very strongly that form follows function."
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"Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny.""
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"I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me."
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"All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people."
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"Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world."
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"I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture."
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