Comedy Quotes
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A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
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As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
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My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.
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In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
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I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
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Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.
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My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.
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I really like dramas that have a tone of comedy in them or the opposite, and those are done by people like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman but also Spike Jonze and David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers.
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I like very straight comedy.
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For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
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I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
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The best way to describe my work is comedy in a very, very real way. I'm not scared to look silly on camera. I take everyday situations we all go through and put a very real twist on it - things people can relate to.
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I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.
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'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.
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I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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I'm a student of Comedy Central. It launched careers: Wanda Sykes and even Kevin Hart. The first time I was introduced to him, he was on Comedy Central. It puts you on the map... Hollywood knows now.
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I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
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I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.
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'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.
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I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
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I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.
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It's important on a comedy to have a fun loving set.
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I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.
