Comedies Quotes · Page 5

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

— Harold Ramis

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

— Elijah Wood

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Anonymous

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

— Gabrielle Union

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

— Paul Morrissey

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

— Kevin Dillon

I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.

— Jaime Camil

My favorite kinds of comedies are ones that hopefully make you laugh a lot, but ultimately make you care about something in…

— Jason H. Moore

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

— John Cusack

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

— Bill Irwin

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

— Lucy Punch

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

— Charles Shyer

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

Some of the finest comedies have chosen the Church as its subject and would indeed make most Christians laugh, give or take…

— Ann Widdecombe

I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy.…

— Edward Norton

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often…

— Audrey Tautou

I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of…

— Nicole Holofcener

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or…

— Judd Apatow

I didn't just dip my toe into the pool of romantic comedies.

— Nancy Juvonen

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

— Kirsten Dunst

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

— Willem Dafoe

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

— Adam Sandler

The only comedy in romantic comedies is the romance part.

— Nikhil Saluja

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

— Kevin Kline

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

— Rachel Bilson

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

— Zooey Deschanel

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

— Mike Birbiglia

It is difficult to pinpoint my favorite comedies.

— Rajpal Yadav

With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.

— Christopher Miller

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

— Sandra Bullock

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

— Pell James

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

— D. B. Sweeney

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.

— Evan Peters

Mohanlal and I have done nearly 40 films together, many of them comedies.

— Priyadarshan