Comedy Quotes - Page 48

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

I do a lot of comedy and I like that. I am happy doing funny films. I am often the straight person in a comedy, which is great as long as there are talented people to work with.

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

Movies take a lot of time to make, so when I sign onto a project, I ask, do I want to dedicate a lot of time to this world? And more so, I look at what I need for me. Do I want to make a comedy? Do I want to make a drama? What do I need? Am I in the right headspace to do this role? And then politics come into consideration, too.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.

How the hell do you wake up dead?

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out