Paul Verhoeven Quotes

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

Paul Verhoeven

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• I actually love doing comedy!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Actually

• I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

  

  Vida Blue
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Comedy

• I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Enjoy

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Thing

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Gotta

• My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Soul
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • God
  • Bad
  • Funny

• My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Breathe

• In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

  

  Anna Jameson
  • Fear
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the only time that I was forced to perform music, because I had piano recitals, and my school also had mandatory music classes that had some performing required.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

  

  Marques Houston
  • People
  • Movie

• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  

  A. Theodore Tuttle
  • Failure
  • Blessing
  • Adversity

• My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

  

  Paul Verhoeven
  • Comedy