Comedy Quote by Dane Cook

Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them…

— Allison Janney

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs…

— John Lithgow

Never make your actors do comical faces. Let them be serious and let the situations make people laugh.

— Priyadarshan

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find…

— Noah Baumbach

I never shoot for a film telling myself that I have to make people laugh. I can't even do stand-up comedy.

— Rajpal Yadav

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can…

— Ben Miller

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

— Thomas Gibson

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the…

— David Dobkin

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get a clean…

— Patti Harrison

I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and…

— Jason Jones

When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then…

— Quentin Dupieux

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in…

— Carrot Top