Quotes About Perception

I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

Comedians shame people.

Well, audiences will laugh at a lot of things that comedians won't.

People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.

The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.

You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's actually not funny.

If I'm playing a bad guy, and I'm playing him evilly - I'm making him evil; I'm being evil because I want the audience to understand that he's bad - or if I have a line that's funny, I do it in a comedic way, that, to me, is a lie. It's dead when I watch it.

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

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

Most people think that action movies are difficult and comedies are easy, but it's actually the opposite. Comedy can be a lot of hard work too.

I actually see comedy in death.

There is this idea in comedy that you don't want to look like you care about your appearance because that takes away from what's real, what's important. And the real stuff is what's funny.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'