Comedy Quotes - Page 43

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

Michael Pitt is amazing. His physical comedy is extraordinary; he's so committed and so willing to play within the scenes. It makes you feel very free to also explore.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.

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.'

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.