Grant Bowler Quotes

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

It's very hard to write humor.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

Comedy is music.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

My instincts are not comedic.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.