Comedic Quote by Patton Oswalt

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way…

— Christopher Walken

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you…

— Jesse Eisenberg

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

— Megyn Price

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the…

— Mike Birbiglia

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny…

— Mel Brooks

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the…

— Mike Birbiglia

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

— Morgan Freeman

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

— Jim Morrison

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and…

— Jeff Baena

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry