Comedy Quotes
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For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.
Andrea Anders
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I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.
Emily Perkins
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My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
Carol Burnett
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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf
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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
Alex Karpovsky
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If the Author will it, there may be appended to any comedy an afterpiece. Meanwhile, so far as I may judge, the life of Manuel ends here.
James Branch Cabell
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Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
Jason Reitman
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And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.
Matt LeBlanc
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When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
Matt Besser
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I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.
Doug Stanhope
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What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.
Christopher Guest
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I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
Bruce Robinson
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I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
Kathy Baker
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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
John Mulaney
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
Brion James
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My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'
Nathan Lane
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Being on 'The Office' prepared me for drama. Comedy got me ready, but once you get down to it, they're two sides of the same thing. I mean, the delivery has to be different - in drama, there's more time to breathe, and comedy's all about hitting the joke.
Craig Robinson
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When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.
Lauren Miller
