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I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Audiences want comedy that has no venom. They want to have a laugh without it becoming twee.
There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.
A lot of times evil - or, in the case of comedy, stupid - is more interesting than the hero.
I didn't really discover that I had a knack for comedy until I landed 'Married w/ Children.'
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.
I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.
Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.
The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.
I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.
I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like.
I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.
I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.
I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.