Comedy Quotes
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I grew up a geek. I added comedy to it midway through high school.
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The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
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When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.
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I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.
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People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.
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It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.
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Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid - I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity - a poetic comedy that's really funny.
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Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?
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There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.
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While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.
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Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.
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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 would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.
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I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly believe you have to entertain yourself in order to relate it the right way to your audience.
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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've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
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Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.
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The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
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Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.
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Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.
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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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Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.
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I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
