Comedy Film Quotes

26 quotes from 19 authors

When you think about what makes a comedy film click, the first thing that jumps out is the writer’s discipline—how much time they spend shaping jokes and timing. One voice admits the favorite title slips away, yet recalls the shock of Borat’s relentless absurdity. Another stresses that breaking expectations beats delivering the predictable, reminding us that surprise fuels laughter more than formula.

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I want to do a comedy film.

Vijay Krishna Acharya

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It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Miranda Hart

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Very honestly, I don't feel 'Munnabhai' is a comedy film. I seriously feel it is a very emotional film.

Rajkumar Hirani

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What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.

Richard McCabe

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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

Frances McDormand

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I'd like to do an action film, a full-on comedy film, family dramas and a soulful romantic film.

Vaani Kapoor

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If there is a chance to do so, I want to work with Stephen Chow in a romantic comedy film.

Gong Hyo-jin

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It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

Jonah Hill

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When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in…

Javed Jaffrey

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'Band Vaaje' is all-in-all a comedy film. But all comic scenes are situational. The jokes are not just for the sake of…

Binnu Dhillon

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'NRT' is a comedy film, which has the extreme of emotions with Vijay Sethupathi and Nayanthara as the protagonists.

Vignesh Shivan

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For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes…

Johnny Lever

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People know Sajid Khan's films as comic capers which make them laugh. They expect a comedy film from me and now I…

Sajid Khan

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Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

Alice Lowe

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In Sarvamangalam,' I am fond of flowers and I want to own a nursery. My character talks only to flowers. If she…

Shamna Kasim

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Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am…

Tim Roth

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It is true that I got recognition. But however good the comedies are, nobody will accept a good comedy director as a…

Priyadarshan

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It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's…

Jonah Hill

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The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh,…

Helen Mirren

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I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy…

Emraan Hashmi

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The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on…

Isla Fisher

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Sundown' is a horror comedy film that quite frankly deserves to be spun into a full movie. Just imagine 'Shaun of the…

Jason Johnson

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I call it a comedy film, but I feel that is because 'Sholay' is a complete film. It is the best in…

Rajpal Yadav

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As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.

Justin Lin

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Nowadays if you talk of comedy as a film genre, you cannot create a simple comedy film, because there are so many…

Varun Sharma

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I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to…

Morgan Freeman

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