Laura Benanti Quotes

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

For comedy, timing is key.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

Nothing can help my comedy.

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.

I've always loved doing comedy.

Most of what I write is comedy.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.