Alice Lowe Quotes

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

The British are so funny.

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

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

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

I do - I do enjoy a good rom-com here and there. Would 'A Fish Called Wanda' be a rom-com?

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that's their sense of humour.

Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

As a rule, Michael Balcon was at great pains to ensure Ealing remained very British. There was no point our trying to be MGM, and we didn't see a lot of American stars.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I'm into comedy, stuff like 'The Office,' 'The Royle Family,' 'Only Fools And Horses,' 'Bilko,' that sort of stuff.

I used to watch 'Private Resort' and laugh all the time.

'NRT' is a comedy film, which has the extreme of emotions with Vijay Sethupathi and Nayanthara as the protagonists.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I got to play a funny part [in the The Master Of Disguise]. There was one thing my character did that involved flatulence and laughing at the same time - that was in the script - and that was basically what sold me on it. I really thought, "This can't help but be funny." And when I saw the film, I was proud that I'd had those moments.