Comedy Quotes
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When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?'
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Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.
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I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.
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I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.
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It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.
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Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.
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I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.
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Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
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One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.
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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.
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I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.
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Beloved King of Comedy.
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The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.
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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.
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I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.
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I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.
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Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.
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Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.
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Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.
