Comedies Quotes

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

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

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

I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

I played comedies and dramas.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.

I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.