Audience Quote by Todd Solondz

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

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

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

— Mel Brooks

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

— Vince Vaughn

The scariest thing about screening a comedy if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if…

— Tim Heidecker

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

— Vicki Lawrence

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

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed…

— Wendell Pierce

Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule…

— Ari Graynor

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting…

— Steve Coogan

There's obviously some appeal in scenes for me - there's something I respond to. I keep doing those films where I put myself out…

— Jason Biggs

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate…

— Rod Lurie