Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

Rehearsals are for gags.

On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.