Comedies Quotes · Page 7

I have enjoyed doing comedies the most because in real life, I don't take myself or anyone else too seriously!

— Manini Mishra

I love romantic comedies... but they have to be done right, but when they are, they're great.

— Erin Moriarty

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an…

— Zachary Knighton

My music's always been about life. And situations. Situation comedies, situation life.

— Johnny Paycheck

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

— Pearl Cleage

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?…

— Monica Bellucci

It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies…

— Zach Galifianakis

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

— Ice Cube

Doing [a relationship comedy] with Sam [L. Jackson] was exciting. I've done a lot of comedies with a lot of comedy people.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability…

— Jeremy Sisto

To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make…

— Charles Shyer

When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something -…

— Lucy Punch

“There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and…

— Siri Hustvedt

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships.…

— Nancy Meyers

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines…

— Bill Pullman

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive…

— Joel McCrea

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

— Jonathan Krisel

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do…

— Charlize Theron

I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it…

— Erinn Hayes

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

— Zooey Deschanel

Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.

— Brad Hall

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

— Albert Brooks

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey…

— Emma McLaughlin

A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned…

— Bill Irwin

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

— David Simon

I love being a part of a romantic comedy. I've done a lot of comedies but haven't always had a ton of…

— Anna Faris

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny…

— Michael Emerson

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic…

— Melissa De Sousa

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony…

— Whit Stillman

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just…

— David Lynch

I really like dumb romantic comedies; that's the way I can turn my brain off and let go.

— Laura Jane Grace

For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing…

— Adam F. Goldberg

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

— B. J. Novak

I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire…

— Brad Anderson

I am a huge fan of the Siddique sir's Malayalam comedies. I grew up watching them. I am also his daughter's classmate…

— Asin

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and…

— Timothy Olyphant

My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think…

— Teryl Rothery