Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

I don't often watch broad comedies and think, "Oh well, I could have been a part of that." It's usually the opposite. I usually watch them, enjoy them, admire them, and think, "You know, I really have nothing to contribute to that".

I don't personally feel comfortable performing in a comedy club, mainly because as an audience member, I've never enjoyed that experience. It feels a little bit theme-park-ish to me, in that it's a club whose product is comedy. I find that weird. It's like those specialty chocolate stores, where everything is chocolate. It's too specific. I like going somewhere that specializes in variety.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

I don't separate Robert DeNiro's comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his work, is that he doesn't do anything unless something happens to him in scenes - unless something happens to make him react. He never came in with a set idea of how he was going to do it, he never came in with guns blazing. He would just show up and wait to see what happened.

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.

I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community.

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally. They're both amazing to me, and it's such an honor to be recognized for both genres, and to have the opportunity to work on shows of such great caliber in both genres. So, you know, it's easy to do both.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.