Comedy Quotes
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Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be 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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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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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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I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
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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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As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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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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I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.
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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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Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.
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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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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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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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We couldn't live without comedy.
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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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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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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The only thing I can say in comparison is when I play comedy characters; I definitely put empathy in right up at the forefront. I think if you believe in someone because you not necessarily feel sorry for them, but you can see how they are the way they are and you can laugh with them, but rather than laugh at them, you are on their side and I think it's
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Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.
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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
