Comedy Quotes
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I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.
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I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.
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What makes comedy so effective is that if you’re making them laugh along the way, they’re going to listen to the deeper cut stuff.
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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.
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Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.
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Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.
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Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.
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A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
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I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
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I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
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I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
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Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.
