Paul Feig Quotes

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

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

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

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.

If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.

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

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

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

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'