Assembly line Quote by Richard Linklater

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided…

— Fran Drescher

I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of…

— Michaela Coel

I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

— Bradley Walsh

I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the…

— Fred Willard

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life,…

— Bob Newhart

I've only had minimum wage jobs or directed movies.

— Ti West

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological…

— Harold Ramis

My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.

— H. Jon Benjamin

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

— Evangeline Lilly

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

— Kevin Dillon

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

— Val Guest

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do…

— Julie Plec