Michaela Watkins Quotes

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

Michaela Watkins

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• It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Me
  • Comedy

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

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Give

• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Just

• Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Comedy

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Violence

• I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Comedy

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Money
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was in 2006 in Holland. It was amazing. I had only been doing stand-up for four years, and I booked that gig through the Just For Laughs Montreal festival, and they flew me out and put me up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Comedy

• My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Control
  • Lost
  • College

• When I'm driving past the place I used to work, or when I'm driving past the comedy studio where I used to take photos in exchange for classes, or when I'm driving past the yoga studio I used to clean on the weekends - it's not that far removed from me yet. I get very sentimental over things like that.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Work
  • Past
  • Comedy

• With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

  

  Diora Baird
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Opinion

• Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

  

  Bethany McLean
  • Money

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Hollywood
  • Texas

• If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

  

  Michaela Watkins
  • Comedy