Brittany Daniel Quotes

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

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 really challenging to play comedy.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

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

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

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.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.