Comedy Quotes
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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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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
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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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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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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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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'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in 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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As told in the final section of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour Christmas CD:
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I'm fascinated by comedy.
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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 could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
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You can't hold comedy back, because it needs to be exposed.
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If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.
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I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.
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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 didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.
