Comedies Quotes · Page 3

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

— Adam McKay

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

— Alan Cumming

Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy.

— Matthew McConaughey

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

— Ben Stiller

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

— Sally Field

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

— Paul Scheer

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

— Kathleen Turner

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

— Aaron Paul

The best comedies are the ones where the person who's in charge is the one with the vision who's said, 'I'm staying…

— Peter Kay

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat…

— Nicholas Stoller

I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always…

— Patrick Marber

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

— Josh Trank

I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women…

— Bar Paly

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

— Harold Ramis

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

— Jennifer Aniston

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just…

— Nigel Cole

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S.…

— John Oliver

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why…

— Adrian Edmondson

The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies…

— Sue Naegle

I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And…

— Vince Vaughn

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done,…

— Michael Cudlitz

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think…

— Rob Lowe

The comedies I have been in that have been successful were the ones where the set was the most tense. It seems…

— Austin Pendleton

I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained…

— Brittany Snow

The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters…

— Ken Marino

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting…

— Christian Bale

I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird,…

— Patton Oswalt

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

— Danny McBride

I like watching romantic comedies and animation.

— Ileana D'Cruz

I love workplace comedies very much, they are just my favorite things in the world.

— Quinta Brunson

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.

— Nicholas Stoller

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

— Rainn Wilson

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

— Dee Wallace

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

— Mike Newell

“Will these books be comedies or tragedies?” “Both. Just like life.”

— Tiffany Reisz

I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.

— Bill Pullman

Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.

— David Naughton