Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in. ”

You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never. ”

I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written. ”

There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans. ”

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

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh. ”

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel. ”

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

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. ”

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it. ”