Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just…

— Chris Hardwick

I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come…

— Elisha Cuthbert

You get into comedy because you are insecure, and you communicate with the world through comedy to sort of alleviate the tension of those…

— Andy Samberg

If I'm going to do comedy I sort of want to do my own.

— Lenny Henry

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

— Jason Statham

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank -…

— Josh Homme

It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid…

— Max Greenfield

I allow myself to not feel the need to be some sort of wonder woman. You can't do everything at once and tear your…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and…

— Michael Sheen

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a…

— Anonymous

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of…

— Mike Birbiglia

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

— Carter Burwell

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of…

— Carly Craig

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put…

— Bo Burnham