Comedy Quotes
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The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.
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Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
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I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
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Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if it's just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, it's easy to run into people you've worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
