Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office.

I don't have a favorite genre. I mean, I always sort of base it on instinct. And it does seem to be that after I finish something that is very dramatic, I end up inevitably wanting to do a comedy or something like that.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

I don't have a stack of scripts...

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

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