Comedies Quotes · Page 6

I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.

— Elijah Wood

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

— Harold Ramis

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

— Taika Waititi

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

— Norman Wisdom

I don't have any favourites, but I like situational comedies, not forced ones.

— Sushmita Sen

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

— Anonymous

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can…

— Sarah Silverman

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I…

— Anonymous

Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'

— Jessica Williams

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get…

— Sandra Bullock

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles,…

— Robert Vaughn

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

— Alex Karpovsky

I do a play a year, or every 18 months, and you get your comedies and your dramas, but you hardly get…

— Nigel Hawthorne

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

— Graeme Simsion

I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done!…

— Sandra Bullock

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like…

— Uma Thurman

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when…

— Kristen Wiig

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable…

— Mark Twain

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered…

— Channing Tatum

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered…

— Tom Shales

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact…

— Ben Stiller

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday…

— Jerry Trainor

Seth MacFarlane, he's kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.

— Moshe Kasher

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people…

— Tom Bennett

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

— Jonah Hill

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of…

— Bill Bixby

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

— Harold Ramis

We are extremely proud of our 'ABC funny' brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.

— Channing Dungey

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…

— Christopher Guest

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose,…

— Jessica Simpson

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out…

— Sophie Kinsella

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

— Jenna Fischer

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie…

— Alison Brie

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to…

— Matthew McConaughey

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

— Elizabeth Banks

I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy.

— Ricky Gervais

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

— Steve Carell

I am tired of doing stupid comedies. Though comedy has given me the breakthrough in the industry, I constantly feel the need…

— Paresh Rawal

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

— Ryan Reynolds