Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that Justin Bieber "roast" and I thought it was hilarious.
For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.
I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office.
I really like just super dry comedy.
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Natural Born Killers is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
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'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.
I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.
I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.
I played comedies and dramas.
The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
I love the HRC. The initials are great.
I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.
When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
