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Comedy needs to happen naturally and be in touch with the character. When you see that guy in your office that everybody laughs at, he doesn't think he's funny. He's just being him, and that's the joke. ”
I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time. ”
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me. ”
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. ”
I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. ”
If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. ”
I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit. ”
Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they weren't really parties, because there was no chips or dip. Just Elvis and his boys watching TV, and him making funny comments, and everybody laughing at them. Is that a party? Not really. But that's Hollywood. ”
I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets. ”
I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny. ”