Comedy Quotes - Page 53

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

What I've kind of learned about comedy is that when comedy gets too expensive it might not be funny. Sometimes it's good to keep the conditions where you're pressed for time and it's just about getting the work done, as opposed to how much things are we eating on the set.

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

I'm looking to be the next comedy mogul.

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel more comfortable in another kind of movie.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to.

The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.