Comedy Quotes
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I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
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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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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
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I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.
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I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.
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One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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Do it stand-up comedy because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.
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In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
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When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
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If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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We couldn't live without comedy.
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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
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I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
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The ultimate objective of comedy is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"
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A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.
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Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.
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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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I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
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I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.
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Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.
