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It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.
All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.
I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.
'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2
People have always asked, 'Do you prefer comedy or drama?' And my answer is, 'Both, at the same time.'
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.
I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.
I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.
I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.
I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.
If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.
As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.
Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.
The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of 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.
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.
By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.
The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.