Comedy Quotes
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I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.
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When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about hailing cabs and being terrorists. So the first two years, I didn't do any of that because I wanted to separate myself from those guys. But race is a big part of who I am, and it should be a big part of my comedy.
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And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
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Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.
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I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
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I've never eaten a Hot Pocket and then afterwards been, I'm glad I ate that. I'm always like, I'm gonna die.
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I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.
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I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."
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I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
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People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
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The '80s was a great decade for comedy.
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We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.
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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 used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.
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I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.
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The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.
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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 really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.
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I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.
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I think one of the great things about 'Bridesmaids' is that it's a big studio comedy, but all of the relationships in it are so grounded that you're watching a real movie.
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.
