Comedy

It's an attempt to do speaking opera. What I'm doing can work against the melodrama and the music, and parody the melodrama. In the love scenes, the men are picked up by the women the men are swept off their feet so I can get a lot of comedy from it. It's a comedy of opposition.

- Lee Breuer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

- Erma Bombeck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

- Marc Maron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

- Desi Arnaz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

- Bobby Darin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

- Eric Idle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel.

- Bea Arthur Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances how dead a human being can get and still be alive ...

- James Agee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

- Bob Saget Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

- Ron Moody Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

- Ismail Merchant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One comedy event an evening is enough for me.

- Lily Tomlin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

- Thomas Lennon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

- Linda Fiorentino Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.

- David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As far as directing, yeah, I'd like to do that. But you've got to spend at least a year, year-and-a-half doing that. It's got to be something you really love. To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me. To do a teen comedy, I don't think is really something I'd want to spend a year of my life doing at this point.

- Michael McKean Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

- Gene Wilder Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

- Paul Watzlawick Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

- Twyla Tharp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

- Gilda Radner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

- Trey Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

- Matt LeBlanc Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

- Paul Kane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

- Tommy Chong Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

- Allan Carr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes