Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

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

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.

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.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

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

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

I've always been a huge fan of Tina Fey's. She's a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them.

I think comedy suits me best.

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

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

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 was born a comic.

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.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

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.

Comedy is second nature for me.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.