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I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it. Steve Martin

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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. Steve Martin

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I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians. Steve Martin

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I gravitate to ensemble comedy. Steve Zahn

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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. Steven Moffat

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To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. Steven Wright

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There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, quite a lot of older people go. For them, it's like pre-alternative comedy, when there was Dave Allen or Jackie Mason or someone. Also, weirdly, because I don't really swear, they're not scared off. Stewart Lee

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I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority. Stewart Lee

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I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres. Stuart Townsend

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'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy. Sunny Deol

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I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my brothers are great at telling stories, and my mom is funny without knowing it. Susan Kelechi Watson

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When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.' Susan Sarandon

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I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it. Susanna Fogel

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Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. Sydney Pollack

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama. Sydney Pollack

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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful. T. J. Miller

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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. T. J. Miller

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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. T. J. Miller

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy. T. J. Miller

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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy. T. J. Miller

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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life. T. J. Miller

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