Comedy Quotes
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People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.
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Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
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The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.
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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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Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.
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For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.
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I'm not sure sophisticated comedy has a place on television any more … I'd like to think it still does … But I'm not sure the networks are interested, I'm not sure anybody else is interested in sophisticated comedy any more.
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Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.
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One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.
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I would never say never to returning to comedy.
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I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.
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In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'
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I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
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I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.
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I grew up a geek. I added comedy to it midway through high school.
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It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
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I love to do comedy.
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I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.
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Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
