Vince Vaughn Quotes

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

I think I could have a funnier, more economic sets. But that's the comedy I do. And I understand if people aren't interested in it and would rather listen to someone else. But I'll never understand the anger people have toward me.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

I do like comedy and drama.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

If you like a conversational style of comedy, if you like comedy that's a little dangerous, I'm your guy.

I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.

I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.

There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.

I think audiences definitely respond to people who are not living the perfect lives. The flawed characters, the people who are struggling. The antiheroes - people like to see that a lot more.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.