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  • Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

    Writing   Thinking   Play  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

    Writing   Needs   Actors  
  • I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

    "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.
  • When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

    Believe   Writing   Men  
  • Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

  • At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

  • If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

    Writing   Trying   Comedy  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

    Love   Failure   Thinking  
    Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776
  • And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.

    Writing   College   Focus  
    Source: collider.com
  • I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

  • I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

    "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.
  • You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

  • When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.

    Source: whitmanwire.com
  • In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

    "'Black Mirror' Creator Dramatizes Our Worst Nightmares About Technology". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 20, 2016.
  • I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

    Writing   Secret   Comedy  
    "Life in the Laugh Factory" by Henry Allen, The Washington Post, p. B1, January 4, 1979.
  • I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

    "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.
  • I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.

    Source: deadline.com
  • If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

    Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”
  • I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

  • That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

    Sports   Dream   Writing  
    "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.
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