Quotes About Comedy

I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.

Chris Rock, I think is pretty brilliant, and Amy Schumer's fabulous.

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

The really funny comedies to me are always the ones that are played the straightest or given the most emotional content. And when people start making faces and setting things up and commenting and winking at you, I don't find that to be very funny.

I like that 'Broad City' exists, and I love being around at the same time as 'Key & Peele.' I love those guys - I just, I love their faces.

I mostly do faces and sounds. That's what I do. Comedy doesn't have to be art.

Never make your actors do comical faces. Let them be serious and let the situations make people laugh.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

The one factor that determines how people get along best is a shared sense of humor.

If it's funny or it's good, then yeah, I'll do it. Whether it's big-screen or whatever wouldn't be the deciding factor for me.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.