Comedies Quotes · Page 6

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

— Dave McCary

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

— Jillian Bell

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

— Naomi Watts

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

— Charlie Day

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

— John Smith

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

— Jason Statham

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

— David Simon

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

— Asin

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

— Laura Jane Grace

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

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 get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get…

— Chris O'Dowd

It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas,…

— Ice Cube

My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,' were sort of comedic 'straight man' parts. My character…

— Rob Lowe

I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious…

— Isla Fisher

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally…

— Richard Ayoade

I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's…

— Rob Corddry

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching…

— Barkhad Abdi

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the…

— Mariella Frostrup

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

— Whit Stillman

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

— James Gray

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as…

— Leonard Maltin

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

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

— Elizabeth Meriwether

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies,…

— Matthew Broderick

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

— Todd Phillips

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are…

— Bobby Farrelly

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

— Jennifer Aniston

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

— Melissa Fumero

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

— Lucy Lawless

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being…

— Paul Feig

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