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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.
I love romantic comedies. When I am at home, and if I want to watch something, I would probably watch a romantic comedy.
Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
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.
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.
I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire to do them.
I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.
Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.
I've always been attracted to more intense and darker roles, but I think there is complexity and darkness in comedies as well.
I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
I am a huge fan of the Siddique sir's Malayalam comedies. I grew up watching them. I am also his daughter's classmate in school.
I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.
Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn't matter where they come from.
Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'
For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.
A lot of series tend to go on for one series too many, especially with comedies, and I think people say 'ooh, it's gone off, that.'
I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.
I am tired of doing stupid comedies. Though comedy has given me the breakthrough in the industry, I constantly feel the need to grow.
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.
If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
I feel mindless comedies make you relax - there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.
I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.
When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'
I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.
The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.