Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

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

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

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

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

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

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It's slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.

You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

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.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

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.'

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.