Quotes About Comedy

Funny is when you're serious.

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

There was always comical aspects of everything I've done, 'Playing The Field' again, I played a comical character even though it was a drama - I like the light and shade.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

I love acting, I really do, I've always loved doing it, and it's a joy to be asked to do this. I mean, to do Beatrice, for God's sake, it is the best comedy Shakespeare role for a woman, and to be asked to do it.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.

I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' from an early age, 'Laverne & Shirley.'

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they don't like.

I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.