Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see. ”

My deepest fear about doing TV, especially about doing a network comedy, was what if it felt too surface-y? What if it felt too jokey? ”

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. ”

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces. ”

In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy. ”

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary. ”

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved. ”

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters. ”

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other. ”

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny. ”