Top 100 Quotes About Comedies
#1. When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.
Ewan McGregor
#2. It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.
Whit Stillman
#3. I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
Patrick Ness
#4. I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#5. If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay
#6. Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.
Jonah Hill
#7. There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.
Frances Harper
#8. Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
James Gray
#9. In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.
Aaron Paul
#11. And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
Sophie Marceau
#12. The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.
Jaime Camil
#13. I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
Mandy Moore
#14. There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
Josh Trank
#15. The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all.
Nara
Jordan MacLean
#16. I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.
Terry Teachout
#17. In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.
Christopher Lloyd
#18. I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.
Patton Oswalt
#19. It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.
Fernando Perez
#20. It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.
Zach Galifianakis
#21. To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.
Paul Rudd
#22. I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.
Elizabeth Banks
#23. When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I'm not a huge viewer of anything.
Lucy Griffiths
#24. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#25. How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
John Donne
#26. I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
Adam Shankman
#27. I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.
Tom Berenger
#28. I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
Kate Beckinsale
#29. You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Albert Brooks
#30. I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.
Judd Apatow
#32. In a lot of comedies, they kind of take all the problems away from the women. They give her great clothes, great hair; she almost always owns an artisanal shop, like a cheese shop in Manhattan.
Melissa McCarthy
#33. I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.
Joel McCrea
#34. Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
Horace Walpole
#35. When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'
Kirsten Dunst
#36. I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
Sophie Kinsella
#37. I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
Jessica Simpson
#38. I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s ... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.
Thomas Jane
#39. I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.
Geoff Stults
#40. I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
Bobby Farrelly
#41. The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.
Judd Apatow
#42. There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.
Steve Carell
#43. 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.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#44. In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.
Jonah Hill
#45. I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
Charlize Theron
#46. I love watching comedies. It's my favorite thing to watch and it always lifts my spirits.
LeToya Luckett
#47. I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.
Catherine Hardwicke
#48. Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.
Ivan Reitman
#49. '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.
B.J. Novak
#50. I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.
Harold Ramis
#51. There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#52. That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.
Jennifer Aniston
#54. I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
Zooey Deschanel
#55. I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#56. Since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.
Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
#57. Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
Sean William Scott
#58. I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.
Woody Allen
#59. What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.
David Morse
#60. I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.
Terry Crews
#61. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
Aberjhani
#62. But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
Gabrielle Union
#63. The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
Mack Sennett
#64. It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
Sean Penn
#65. I've always loved ... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
Sam Raimi
#66. I would love to do a small indie comedy, like a Wes Anderson movie or, like, an ensemble comedy like 'The Royal Tenenbaums' or 'Little Miss Sunshine.' I like comedies like that, that have a lot of heart and are about family dynamics.
Jerry Trainor
#67. A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
Jon Hurwitz
#68. I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.
Mike Myers
#69. For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt ... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
Paul Feig
#70. The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.
Matt Groening
#71. There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.
Terry Teachout
#72. I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
Melissa Marr
#73. I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.
Romeo Miller
#74. It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.
Rob Sheffield
#75. I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.
Roxane Gay
#76. I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
Uma Thurman
#78. I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.
Seann William Scott
#80. I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.
Rene Russo
#81. A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.
Ty Burrell
#82. I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'
Rachel Hurd-Wood
#83. I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.
Christian Bale
#84. The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.
Hanna Rosin
#85. I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
Bar Paly
#86. I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
Matthew McConaughey
#87. I have a dark sense of humor, so I definitely like to work on stuff like that. I do enjoy working in comedies where I can create a fun and broad character.
Fiona Gubelmann
#88. My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Vincent Cassel
#89. I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.
Pell James
#90. Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.
Josh Radnor
#91. 'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies ... It's so ridiculous.
Chris Pine
#92. I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.
Isla Fisher
#93. I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.
Jason Fuchs
#94. I don't see myself making comedies always.
Jody Hill
#95. I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.
Kirsten Dunst
#96. The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets Spider-Man [as his next project]. Are you kidding me? You cannot win.
Manohla Dargis
#97. I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.
Paul Bloom
#98. I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
Elijah Wood
#99. When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.
Serena Williams
#100. I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.
Alex O'Loughlin
