Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I was nervous about playing a lead part in a Working Title romantic comedy and I was also nervous about the fact that I not only had to take my clothes off, but get my willy out. There's certain things you can do to make yourself look better, but there's nothing you can do about your willy. Your willy is your willy and no amount of working out is going to make your willy look any different. You get what you're given. But I wanted to look my best and to whip myself into any semblance of handsomeness. And that was hard going.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches that I wrote, which really sparked my pursuit of comedy.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I worked mostly in television drama for my first few years. I just kept guesting on NYPD Blues and CSI-like stuff, so when I started getting work in comedy, a lot of people in the business would say, 'Oh - I didn't know you did comedy.'

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

I would love a little bit of a change. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.

I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body