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Quotes About Comedy

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets 'Spider-Man.' Are you kidding me? You cannot win.
~ Manohla Dargis
I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.
~ Jason Segel
We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
~ Emma McLaughlin
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
~ Naomi Watts
I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not...
~ Kate Hudson
I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
~ Jason Isaacs
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
~ Demetri Martin
My mom, she's like Why can't you just do a nice romantic comedy like Jennifer Love Hewitt? And I'm like: Mom, look at me. They just don't put me in those movies.
~ Norman Reedus
I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.
~ Vincent Cassel
Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
~ Sam Elliott
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
~ Julie Delpy
It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.
~ Jason Reitman
My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and say, If you love me, blink your eyes.
~ Phyllis Diller
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.
~ Nicholas Stoller
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.
~ Roxane Gay
Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.
~ Nicholas Stoller
My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think that it's one of the best ever.
~ Teryl Rothery
I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.
~ Nicholas Stoller
I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.
~ Sandra Bullock
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
~ Dana Fox
Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
~ Morris Chestnut
I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether