Comedy Quotes
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A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.
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Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The goofier you are, it doesn't mean you're going to be funnier.
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The most woeful ingredients of the Spanish civil war were its selfish motives, the hidden ambitions it served, the emphasis on hollow words used by both sides; it seemed to be a comedy - terribly bloody - but a comedy all the same.
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There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
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I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.
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On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
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I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my brothers are great at telling stories, and my mom is funny without knowing it.
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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
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I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
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I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.
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I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.
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Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
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I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'
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I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.
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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.
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I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
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When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
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On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.
