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There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.