Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

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

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 never say never to returning to comedy.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

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

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

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

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

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

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.

Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for everybody, so maybe mom movies aren't for everybody.

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.