Best Comedies Quotes
248 Comedies quotes by 204 unique authors
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It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a…
— Pat Boone
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I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies,…
— Tara Reid
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I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I…
— Vince Vaughn
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I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
— Maria Bello
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I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon
— Tom Berenger
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Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
— Charlton Heston
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I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in…
— Alice Eve
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I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
— Janine Turner
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The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb…
— Manohla Dargis
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To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and…
— Unknown Author
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Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands…
— Unknown Author
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Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you…
— Bill Pullman
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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
— Carter Burwell
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The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox…
— Gus Van Sant
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both…
— James Wolcott
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Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
— Timothy Olyphant
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Comedies are something Id be very interesting in doing.
— David Naughton
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I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like…
— Michel Gondry
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A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas…
— Robert McKee
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Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the…
— Mariella Frostrup
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I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.
— Dee Wallace
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Big studio comedies are such a headache.
— Penelope Spheeris
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To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me…
— Nora Ephron
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There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
— David Simon
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I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly…
— Michael Emerson
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