James Gandolfini Quotes

I like really stupid comedies.

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

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

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

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

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

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

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

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

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

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.