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• I love the absurd – kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

  Rose McGowan

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• I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

  Rodney Carrington

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• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  Robin Williams

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• Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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• If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you’re going to have a musical comedy administration.

  Robert Moses

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• To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

  Elayne Boosler

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• And the only studies were – Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

  Robert Klein

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• There’s nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

  Robert Evans

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• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

  Robert Englund

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• I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn’t come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn’t mean I can’t do them – I’ve done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

  Elisha Cuthbert

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• I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

  Elizabeth Banks

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• Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it’s the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

  Austin Peck

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• I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I’m geared towards.

  Austin Peck

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• All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don’t have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

  Will Ferrell

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• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it’s essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it’s a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  Will Ferrell

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• Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

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• My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

  Adam Sandler

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• I get all of my comedy from CNN.

  Rob Corddry

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• You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

  Elliott Erwitt

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• I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

  Catherine Ann Keener

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