Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. ”

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. ”

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny. ”

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too. ”

I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book. ”

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all. ”

I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes. ”

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. ”

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work. ”

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. ”