"If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing."
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"In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity."
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"But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy."
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"It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive."
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"I actually enjoy comedy; it's a lot of fun."
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"In this desperate way, I started many a comedy."
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"If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody."
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"That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say."
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"I would love to see some comedies about loser women."
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"I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy."
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"I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience."
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"It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't."
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"The only weapon we have is comedy."
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"My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding."
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"Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film."
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"One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger."
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"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
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"I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them."
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"With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from."
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"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."
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