Comedy Quotes
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Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
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I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
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I would love to do more family comedy.
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It was just really fun doing 'Step Brothers,' and then 'Party Down' came a year later. I was having so much fun. I loved the people and the comedy community.
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It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
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You can find comedy anywhere.
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.
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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a very fortunate foray into comedy, and it seems to have become a bit of a strength, and you can't complain when you become known for something.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes from.
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I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.
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I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
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I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.
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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
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Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.
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It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.
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Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
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I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
