Guy Ritchie Quotes

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

I like comedy as a group sport.

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

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

I wanted to be a comedian.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

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.

There's an art to comedy.

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.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

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.

I always really loved comedy. It's the only thing I was ever good at.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

Funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny. I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.