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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.