Comedies Quote by Ophelia Lovibond

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on…

— David Morse

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman

I don't often watch broad comedies and think, "Oh well, I could have been a part of that." It's usually the opposite. I usually…

— Eric Bana

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

— Steve Martin

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

— Rick Famuyiwa

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

— Ari Graynor

I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.

— Callie Thorne

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

— Rowan Atkinson

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

— Luke Wilson

When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character…

— Greg Daniels

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

— Jason H. Moore