#comedy

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. ↗

— Sally Field

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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. ↗

— Helen Fielding

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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality. ↗

— Steve Coogan

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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing. ↗

— Dane Cook

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And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

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In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

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Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do. ↗

— David R. Ellis

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