Comedy Quotes
-
I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.
-
Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.
-
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
-
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
-
I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.
-
Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.
-
Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)
-
I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.
-
I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.
-
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
-
When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
-
I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
-
You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.
-
I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.
-
This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
-
I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
-
Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.
-
I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
-
Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
-
It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.
-
I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
-
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
-
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
-
After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
