Comedy Quotes - Page 26

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

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

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

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

There's always a message in my comedy.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

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.

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

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

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.