Comedy Quotes
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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If I am totally honest, I would have to say that 'Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.
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Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
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I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.
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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with them, daily. YouTube has been a game changer as well - people around the world have been exposed to my comedy through my YouTube channel.
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If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.
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I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.
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The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.
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I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.
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A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it, and it's a little too cool for school.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.
