Comedy Quotes
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I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.
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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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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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You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
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I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.
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I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.
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I'm fascinated by comedy.
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As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.
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With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
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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 usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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You can't hold comedy back, because it needs to be exposed.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.
