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Profession: Actress
Nationality: American
Birthday: September 22, 1961

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It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

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I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Ed Koch

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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

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Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

Sylvester McCoy

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I don't overswing any more. I can throw a punch and be right in position to punch again. No more 'Hail Mary' punches, where it took me five minutes to get back in position.

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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

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We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

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If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

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Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

Shaquille O'Neal

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I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

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Everybody steals my lines.

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Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

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