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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

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

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

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.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

Most modern comedy is crap.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.