Comedies Quotes

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

All those zany comedies have instilled a sense of pace in me.

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.