David Zucker Quotes

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I love the Marx Brothers.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

I loved 'SNL' growing up, and I would trick my babysitter into letting me stay up to watch it. My family would rent Marx brothers' movies and Monty Python episodes, and we watched 'In Living Color', 'The State', and 'Strangers with Candy'.

I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

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

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

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

I like really stupid comedies.

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